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Appreciate and rejoice without any expectations. It doesn’t matter if people are nasty to you … betray you … don’t even say ‘thank you’ to you. By appreciating everything around you, from happy experiences to upsetting experiences, your life could be so meaningful, full of understanding, happiness, joy, strength and full of fearlessness … GYALWANG DRUPKA
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The worst speculative sceptic I ever knew was a much better Man than the best superstitious Devotee and Bigot … Scottish enlightenment philosopher … David Hume
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History is what hurts … FREDRIC JAMESON
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A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heav’n of hell, a hell of heav’n … John Milton, Paradise Lost
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War is the continuation of business by other means, Brecht famously said, in his play, Mother Courage and Her Children. He wrote it in direct response to Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939
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Grand vision of justice, without adequate means of securing it and efficient means of delivering it would benefit none … SA BOBDE
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Unless you doubt, your ‘wisdom’ itself is in doubt is a Greek adage
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Authority is not truth; truth is the only authority
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Ram’s example reminds us that being human is super
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So paraphrasing Rene Descartes’ famous dictum… Cognito, Ergo, Sum- I think, therefore, I am, you doubt, therefore, you are.
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Spiritually, there’s nothing big or small. Such ideas are like those of the literary people who think writing a poem is a high work and making shoes … is a small … low one … all are equal in the eyes of the Spirit … it is the spirit with which they are done that matters …SRI AUROBINDO
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Shakespeare’s lines in As You Like It: ” Do you not know I am a woman. When I think I must speak.”
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Only a fruit-laden tree has rocks thrown at it… Indian proverb
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men … Joseph Conrad
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If you lose, you learn and, therefore, you win.
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If we all look into our own homes, how difficult we find it sometimes to smile at each other … Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally, we want to do something … MOTHER TERESA
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Even if the vilest sinner worships me with exclusive devotion … Speedily he becomes virtuous and attains peace … Fix your mind on me, be devoted to me, worship me and make obeisance to me; thus linking yourself to me and entirely depending on me, you shall come to me … THE BHAGWAT GITA
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When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object … Novelist Milan Kundera
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It is often said in English that hunches seldom let you down. What emanates from the recesses of the heart doesn’t go in vain.
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Hakim Sanai writes in one of his couplets in Pahlavi, ‘Zee an az Mee manzil zaaq-e-zehan/Shee’ and mansookh aawaaz-e-dil sehan’ … So long as I listened to my mind, I failed to reach my destination/ The moment I listened to the voice of my heart, the destination was before me.
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Mind misleads, heart heals … An old adage
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The symphony of the heart doesn’t have a single flawed note. It’s divinely prophetic
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Who would deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole literature of India and Arabia. … Thomas Macaulay
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There is a flower I meet on my walk … these days. It has sprung out of a … mug in Mrs D’s little balcony and is always nodding and dancing in the breeze. It is a happy flower, deserving of a happy, light name. I have named it Merry Heart, and sealed our friendship … RUSKIN BOND
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The opposite of forgetfulness is mindfulness. Mindfulness is when you’re truly there, mind and body together… When your mind is there with your body, you are established in the present moment. Then you can recognise the many conditions of happiness that are in you and around you, and happiness just comes naturally … THICH NHAT HANH
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Your heart, mind, object – may all these be One. So shall you prosper, all, and live in peace … God harnesses you all to the same yoke; the sacrificial Fire of Spirit tends ye all with one intent … walk ye together … and may your minds all know the Self-Same Truth … RIG VEDA
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“The thing is to be happy,” he said. “No matter what… try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It’s nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn’t believe how good it is. Accept everything, and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens … you’re… there,  going along easy in the world.” … ALICE MUNRO, DEAR LIFE
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It is often said in policy making that let not the perfect be the enemy of the good.
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Remarking that only a work that “reveals an unknown fragment of human existence” can be called literature, he added, “to be a writer does not mean to preach the truth, it means to discover the truth.”
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A referendum may look smart, but to get into its tight outfit, one has to unhook citizenship of its ribcage and place most of its vital organs in deep freeze … DIPANKAR GUPTA
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Humorist Kin Hubbard says … no one ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.
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I forgive all living beings; may all living beings forgive me. I cherish friendliness towards all and harbour enmity towards none … Renouncing all passions and delusions with a pure heart, I beg your forgiveness if I have not been prudent in my behaviour towards you due to inadvertence… Achara Samhita
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Every twelfth year of the Chinese calendar is considered the year of the tiger, and children born in that year are considered lucky and powerful …29.7.23 SPEAKING TREE SWAMI SUKHABODHANANDA
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During my childhood … the … years I spent at school, and again while I was working in Bengal … the time I spent in the jungles held unalloyed happiness for me … My happiness resulted from the fact that all wildlife is happy in its natural surroundings. In nature, there is no sorrow and no repining …JIM CORBETT
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Certainly, old age has a great sense of calm and freedom; when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are freed from the grasp not of one mad master only, but of many … he who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. … PLATO, THE REPUBLIC
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Laughter is far more sacred than prayer, because prayer can be done by anyone; it does not require much intelligence. Laughter requires intelligence; it requires presence of mind, a quickness of seeing into things … In deep laughter, the ego disappears … If the ego is there, it will keep you serious.   OSHO
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Cows are of various colours, milk is one colour; The wise man looks upon the soul as milk, of bodies as cows of different garba. Knowledge is hidden, as butter is in milk.*
There is more power in rock music, videos, blue jeans…than in the entire Red Army.  REGIS DEBRAY
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It was only a smile… It didn’t make anything all right… A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird’s flight. But I’ll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting … Khaled Hosseini
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The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you understand why … MARK TWAIN
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We build too many walls and not enough bridges … Isaac Newton
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If you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all
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Feminism is not about making women stronger. It is about changing the way the world perceives their strength … Geena D Anderson, Australian feminist
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To grow up is one thing, and to grow old is yet another thing. Growing up involves adding life to your years. Growing old involves adding years to your life.
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Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong … CHARLES HANDY
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Men owe something at all times, whether in peace or in war, for the privilege of citizenship an that the burden rested equally on rich and poor … Theodore Roosevelt
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today … ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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This city is what it is because our citizens are what they are … PLATO
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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair… KHALIL GIBRAN
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If God is all you have, you have all you need … Biblical message
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A rose by any other name,’ remarked William Shakespeare in ‘Romeo and Juliet’, ‘Would smell as sweet.’
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The timber’s already a boat; the rice is cooked … CHINESE SAYING
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What great ones do, the less will prattle of … Twelfth Night, Shakespeare
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For murder, though it has no tongue, will speak … Hamlet, William Shakespeare
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The harlot’s cheek, beautified with plastering art, … HAMLET
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To be, or not to be: that is the question … Whether ’tis nobler in mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles … HAMLET

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Written and posted by Kamlesh Tripathi

Author, Poet, & Columnist

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