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“Beyond speech and mind,
Into the river of ever-effulgent Light
My heart dives.
Today thousands of doors, closed for millennia,
Are opened wide.”
― Sri Chinmoy, The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

tags: heart, light, meditation

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“This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.”
― Joseph Stalin

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“When happiness is liked by me and others equally, what is so special about me that I should strive after happiness only for myself?”
― Śāntideva

tags: buddhism, philosophy

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“Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre.
[Vincent Van Gogh]”
― Irving Stone, Lust for Life

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“Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: broken, broken-heart, heart, heartache, heartbreak, pills

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