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The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.

Truth Rough Enjoyed Challenges
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Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

Anyone Aware Being Breath
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When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

Mountains Admire Sense Challenge
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I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

Lucky Man Dream True
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To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

Around Care Go Go Home
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True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

Aware Awareness Between Caught
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You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

Bring Depend Happiness Helps
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

Used World Constantly Walking
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My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.

Heart Friends Better Train
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My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— It gives a lovely light!

Burns Ends Night Friends
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We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Come Continue Higher Knowledge
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People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

Anymore Because Caught Free
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I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
Gladdest Under Sun Touch
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Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.
Breath Every Every Step Filled
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You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

Calm Future Hand Hope
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Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

Encounter Inner Listening Most
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In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

Deal First Heal How
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If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

Back Bringing Buddhism Buddhist
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Being Being Busy Busy Consciousness
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
Come Evil Letting Lies
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

Change Falling Falling In Love Go
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Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

Gently Beautiful Kind Intelligent
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The heart can push the sea and land Farther away on either hand; The soul can split the sky in two, And let the face of God shine through.

Heart Push Soul Sky
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I will come back to you, I swear I will; And you will know me still. I shall be only a little taller Than when I went.

Come Swear Taller
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I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

Being Everyone I Think Important
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Between Doing Many Out
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Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written.

Cruel Heart Song Reading-eyes
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To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No thing that ever flew, Not the lark, not you, Can die as others do.

Young Poet Bird Wing
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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
Every Every Man Man Man Needs
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I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind...

Born Woman Distressed Needs
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Ah, I could lay me down in this long grass And close my eyes, and let the quiet wind Blow over me
Lay Me Long-grass Eyes
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She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine.

Learned Hands Fairy-tale Valentine
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I saw and heard, and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, and present, and forevermore.

Saw Heard Past Present
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But you were something more than young and sweet And fair, - and the long year remembers you.

You Young Sweet Fair
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But the roaring of the fire, And the warmth of fur, And the boiling of the kettle Were beautiful to her!

Roaring Fire Warmth Boiling
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Searching my heart for its true sorrow, This is the thing I find to be: That I am weary of words and people, Sick of the city, wanting the sea.

Searching Heart Sorrow Words
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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Base Calls Entirely Even
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Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

Brown Generic Like Moral
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I will control myself, or go inside. I will not flaw perfection with my grief. Handsome, this day: no matter who has died.

Control Myself Flaw Perfection
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Into each dance must be packed the panic and ecstasy of her last moment of life, for underneath was death.

Dance Packed Ecstasy Moment
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

Absolute Another Body Human
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About the trees my arms I wound; Like one going mad I hugged the ground; I raised my quivering arms on high; I laughed and laughed into the sky.

Trees Hugged Ground Quivering
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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Almost Always Becomes Demands
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And you as well must die, beloved dust, And all your beauty stand you in no stead; This flawless, vital hand, this perfect head, This body of flame and steel, before the gust.

Die Beloved Dust Beauty
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Along my body, waking while I sleep, Sharp to the kiss, cold to the hand as snow, The scar of this encounter like a sword

Body Sleep Kiss Snow
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

Afford Basically Books Britain
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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.

Exhausted Feel Friendships Guys
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I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

Celtic Clubs Even Everybody
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Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.

Cricket Game Match Pressure
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The team which handles the pressure best, carries the day.

Best Carries Day Pressure
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