No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
~ Albert Einstein
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Level of consciousness →
Realize you do not understand →
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
~ Lao Tzu
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Living virtuously →
Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you.
Sanity means tying it to your own actions.
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Then do patriots flourish →
When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.
~ Lao Tzu
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Heart →
Before you embark on any path ask the question, does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it and then you must choose another path. The trouble is that nobody asks the question. And when a man finally realizes that he has taken a path without a heart the path is ready to kill him.
~ Carlos Castaneda
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I must die →
I must die. If instantly, I will die instantly; If in a short time, I will dine first, since the hour for dining is here, and when the time comes, then I will die. How? As becomes a person who is giving back what is not his own.
~ Epictetus
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Courage, part 2 →
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
~ Amelia Earhart
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Relationships →
They who wanted to do each other good are now handling one another in an imperious and intolerant manner, and in the struggle somehow to get out of their untenable and unbearable state of confusion, they commit the greatest fault that can happen to human relationships: they become impatient.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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Genius →
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
~ Lao Tzu
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Discipline →
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception it is a prevailing attitude.
~ Colin Powell
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