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Buddha, Vol. 2: The Four Encounters (Buddha #2)

by Osamu Tezuka

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Wholeness and the Implicate Order

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Discourses and Selected Writings

by Epictetus

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“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”
― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters

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“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“Empty, empty, empty; silent, silent, silent. The room was a shell, singing of what was before time was; a vase stood in the heart of the house, alabaster, smooth, cold, holding the still, distilled essence of emptiness, silence.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

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“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

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