If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

Rumi

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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.

Ramana Maharshi

When you lose, do not lose the lesson.

14th Dalai Lama

The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

All that you are is the result of what you have thought. It is founded on your thoughts. It is made up of your thoughts.

Swami Sivananda

I shut my eyes in order to see.

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