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You cannot see clearly, because you are so full of expectations, hopes, desires. Your eyes are covered with many layers of dust: you need a deep cleansing of your eyes. That's what meditation is. Let the thoughts disappear, the hopes disappear, the desires disappear. Then you have a clarity, then your eyes are perfect mirrors. Only then, in that silent state of your vision, will you know the secrets of the beyond.
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You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.
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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
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You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to fit those situations.
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You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.
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You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
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You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.
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You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.
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You cannot travel on the path until you become the path itself.
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You cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
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You don't really talk about it in terms of the U.N., you talk about it in terms of the United States and the Soviet Union. If you cannot, by diplomacy, bring the Soviet Union into an alliance with the U.S. to stop this situation it is not going to be stopped.
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
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You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
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You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.
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You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.
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You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
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