Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

David Foster Wallace

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The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ''mangled mind'' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

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When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between pain and pleasure breaks down, both become just experience - painful when resisted, joyful when accepted.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

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