It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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{Photography by Luisvilla}
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Imagine there’s no Heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for todayImagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peaceYou may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as oneImagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the worldYou may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
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“I am going to pose a question,” King Milinda said to Venerable Nagasena. “Can you answer?”
Nagasena said: “Please ask your question.”
The King said: “I have already asked.”
Nagasena said: “I have already answered.”
The King said: “What did you answer?”
Nagasena said: “What did you ask?”
The King said: “I asked nothing”
Nagasena said: “I answered nothing”
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{Photography by Natalie Maynor}
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Buddhism: Look within, you are the Buddha
Christianity: The kingdom of heaven is within you
Confucianism: Heaven, earth and human are of one body
Yoga: God dwells within you as you
Upanishads: By understanding the self, all this universe is known
(Photography by Tambako the Jaguar}
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Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.- William Ernest Henley
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