“If you love a flower, don’t pick it up.
Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love.
So if you love a flower, let it be.
Love is not about possession.
Love is about appreciation.”
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Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love.
So if you love a flower, let it be.
Love is not about possession.
Love is about appreciation.”
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“The understanding of oneself is not a result, a culmination; it is seeing oneself from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship—one’s relationship to property, to things, to people and to ideas.”
― The First and Last Freedom
― The First and Last Freedom
“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
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“People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.”
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“All is ephemeral, both what remembers and what is remembered.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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