To die should be the most interesting journey of all the journeys a person can take. - Janwillem van de Wetering

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Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead.

Janwillem van de Wetering

To die should be the most interesting journey of all the journeys a person can take.

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Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.

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What is first seen as a loss is now seen as a gain. For he finds solitude, not in far off, quite places; he creates it out of himself, spreads it around him, wherever he may be, because he loves it and slowly he ripens in this tranquility. For the inner process is beginning to unfold, stillness is extraordinarily important.

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To see what isn't true is easy. But to see what is true will take some doing.

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I had been proud of my awareness, aware of my pride, and proud of that awareness again. It went on like this: How clever I am that I know I am so stupid, how stupid I am to think that I am clever, and how clever I am that I am aware of my stupidity, etc.

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Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve.

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. . . if you wish to get pure air into your room, or if you go for a walk in the fresh air, think of the pure and of the unclean heart. Many of us like to have pure air in the room (and this is an excellent habit), or are fond of walking in the fresh air, but they do not even think of the necessity of the purity of the spirit or heart (of, so to say, spiritual air, the breath of life); and, living in the fresh air, they allow themselves to indulge in impure thoughts, impure movements of the heart, and even impurity of language, and most impure carnal actions.

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A painting is not made to be sniffed.

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For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best judges of the national interest are. . . businessmen. This may be a ridiculous statement, but -- ominously -- fewer and fewer people laugh at it.

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