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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

“For a self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.”
― Virginia Wolf

“Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our immortal self is beyond all of this.”
― Bert McCoy, A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life

“True beauty is what you see with the eyes of love,”
― Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

“To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.”
― Deepak Chopra

“Promise yourself to stop buying into people’s potential.
You’re not a start-up investor.”
― Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty

“Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It comes from the mind’s mysterious instinct to believe that pain is good, or that it cannot be escaped, or that the person deserves it.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

“Your character is not to be judged by the mistakes you make – but your ability to hold yourself accountable, interrogate your actions and come back with the correct behaviour.”
― Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty

“There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. ...But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well-being, and peace of mind.”
― Deepak Chopra

“Ask for nothing less than inspiration.”
― Deepak Chopra

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Her grace, her infinite tenderness, the purity of her, were all set about his soul like angels round a dreamer's bed.”
― Warwick Deeping, Uther and Igraine

“Those of us who invite God's Spirit to live in the core of our being and to express Christ through us - body, soul and spirit - become linked forever with God.”
― Hugh Ross, Beyond the Cosmos: What Recent Discoveries in Astrophysics Reveal About the Glory and Love of God

“The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.”
― Deepak Chopra

“But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Experience life in all possible ways --
good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light,
summer-winter. Experience all the dualities.
Don't be afraid of experience, because
the more experience you have, the more
mature you become.”
― Osho

“Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness.”
― Deepak Chopra, Spiritual Solutions: Answers to Life's Greatest Challenges

“Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
― Sigmund Freud

“And it's inside myself that I must create someone who will understand.”
― Clarice Lispector

“Instead of asking "what’s the problem?" ask "what's the creative opportunity?”
― Deepak Chopra

“I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”
― Chaim Potok, The Chosen

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
― Carl Jung

“Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson