Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient. - Henry Ward Beecher

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If you meditate and continue to have fun with yoga and Buddhism, you will amass knowledge and will move to a higher incarnation. In your next lifetime you will be much wiser, much happier.

Henry Ward Beecher

Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.

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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

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Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

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