When we are healthy, wealthy and powerful, we forget about our mortality. It’s only when irreparable cracks set in that we come back to reality.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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Light and Dark: each was unaware that the other existed.

~ Ashim Shanker

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At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands of light and dark? Could they indeed have been distinct entities?

~ Ashim Shanker

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The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.

~ Ashim Shanker

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So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

~ Alan W. Watts

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Each person has a self-image that, to some degree, does not match reality. A significant difference between self-image and reality can be harmful. The more self-aware you are, the less likely you are to be vulnerable to your illusions. The more aware you are, the more you can do with your life.

~ Robert H. Bolton

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Trust is an illusion meant to wrap one in a false sense of belief, in that moment of realization will despair ultimately set in.

~ Lolah Runda

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