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Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

Uncomfortable Considerable Honor
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I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.

Remembered Personally Think Gift
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When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

Beauty Born Connection Earth
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If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

Benefit Entire Everyone Family
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The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.

Anxieties Been Consume Consumption
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In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, 'why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,' and they abandon their values.

Abandon All Day Appear Ask
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Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

Been Civilisation Cosmos Destroyed
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When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Body Different Different Way Get
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You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also... your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

Also Child Come Deep
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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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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

Enjoyed Climbing People Friends
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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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People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Familiar Fear Go Hard
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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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Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.

Take Advantage Pioneering Efforts
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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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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

Adventuring Ordinary Person Qualities
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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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Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.
Action Any Anything Bears
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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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When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

Cannot Chance Consumption Mindful
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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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Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Pity Heart Slow Learn
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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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No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.

One Night Dark Face
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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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This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.

Book Dead Perfume People
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She is happy where she lies With the dust upon her eyes.

Happy Lies Dust Eye
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Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

Angry Compassionate Help Less
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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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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
Fantasy Fantasy World Find Great
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

About Flowers Joy Mad
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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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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Difficult Love Love Is Oneself
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Amazed Commit Getting Getting Married
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Enlightening Eyes Falling Love
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
Cry Down Equality Everyone
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
Come Evil Letting Lies
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
Being End Good In The End
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Anything Art Cunning Face
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Better Confused Indifference Misguided
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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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