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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Feeling Important Language Listen
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A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

Deed Equivalent Good Picture
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There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

Blue Orange Without Yellow
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Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Accomplish Done Lies Loves
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How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

How Inside Me Service
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If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Insight Many Master Thing
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The way to know life is to love many things.
Know Life Love Many
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I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Artistic Feel Love More
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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Easy Everywhere Looking Paper
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Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

Always Brings Difficulties Energy
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It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

Better Even Makes Mistakes
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If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

Activity Arises Challenge Danger
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

Living Moment Really You
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Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.

Stillness Teaching Vehicles Around
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The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Death Disappears Fear Live
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

Adventure Life Package Tour
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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.

Agent Believe Blade Body
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

Deeply Ever Focus Life
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

Against Always Life Moment
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There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

Acknowledge Balance Between Example
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The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Better Contained Create Creating
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Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

Blaming Cannot Complaining Discontent
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

Dimension Gratitude Life Moment
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

Arises Awareness Head Identified
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I feel like acting is something I've been working towards longer. And it would be great to win a Grammy, of course, but for some reason, an Oscar speaks more to me.

Acting Been Course Feel
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I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

Alive Aware Become Being
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I really do try to watch everything I say. Because one little tiny slip, and it's like the world is coming to an end!

Because Coming End Everything
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The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new.

Anybody Because Deep Down
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Exercise is amazing, from the inside out. I feel so alive and have more energy.

Alive Amazing Energy Exercise
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When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

Arises Around Attention Become
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The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

Being Beyond Consciousness Essence
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That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

Awakening Deeper Emerges Person
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Jesus said, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.' I think if he lived nowadays, instead of 'kingdom,' he would have said, 'dimension.' And 'heaven' refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.

Dimension Heaven Instead Jesus
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You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.

Cope Future Mind Moment
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It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
It Will Great Place
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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

Nature Doctrine Am Addicted
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving

Love Religion Business Family
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

Inject Few Raisins Conversation
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Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

Case Confident Constantly Defense
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Around the world, our cities are not the idealised open, accessible, and cosmopolitan spaces of our dreams. More often than not, they are sectioned and controlled purviews of the radically wealthy, surrounded by clusters of have-nots.

Accessible Around Cities Clusters
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Lagos is a fascinatingly infuriating place that its residents love - and love to hate. Licence plates on cars here proudly display the state motto, 'Centre of Excellence,' in what often seems a sarcastic swipe at the place we live in.

Car Centre Display Excellence
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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

Affects Always Annihilation Around
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Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Disguised Others Over Power
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As an adult, I discovered Claritin, and my whole world changed.
Adult Changed Discovered Whole
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D.C. is in my blood, my diction, my sensibility and style. I am, though, in love with a city that cannot fully love me back.

Am Back Blood Cannot
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Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Anger Boredom Come Conditions
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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Another Prejudice Reduce Anymore
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For me, I am really interested in how I can stretch myself to produce things. If, in the process, others take note and recognise that, then wonderful.

Am How I Am I Can
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To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Being Enlightenment Freedom Joy
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I've got to keep on writing. That's non-negotiable. At the same time, one has to look at the world and recognise that writing is not the only thing to be done - I want to have an effect on the world.

Done Effect Got Keep
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