“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”
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“The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.”
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“When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because thoughts need your attention to survive. Once you begin to pay attention to them and categorize them, then they become very powerful. You are feeding them energy because you are not seeing them as simple phenomena. If one tries to quiet them down, that is another way of feeding them.”
― The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation
― The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation
“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
― Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers
― Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers
“So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.”
― Lay Morals
― Lay Morals
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