True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized.

Dalai Lama

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Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you.

Rabindranath Tagore

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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton

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I awoke only to find that the rest of the world was still asleep.

Leonardo da Vinci

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At some point, if you're lucky, you realize you're not the story. You're part of the story. The story is much bigger than you.

Maynard James Keenan

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What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

Rabindranath Tagore

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