How people treat you is their karma;
how you react is yours.

A Buddhist Saying
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Fear Less, Know More

Nothing in life is to be feared,
it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more,
so that we may fear less.

Madame Marie Curie
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It is not that you must be free from fear.
The moment you try to free yourself from fear,
you create a resistance against fear.
Resistance, in any form, does not end fear.

What is needed, rather than running away
or controlling or suppressing or any other
resistance, is understanding fear; that means,
watch it, learn about it,
come directly into contact with it.

We are to learn about fear,
not how to escape from it,
not how to resist it through courage and so on.

J. Krishnamurti
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Do not be small minded.
Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God,
when you should be asking for pure love
and pure knowledge
to dawn within every heart.

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Great Swan by Lex Hixon
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Don't be content with looking at a rose as beautiful flower.
Look at her with Love, so that she enters into your heart
and awakens other forces in your heart and soul.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
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As one can see
when the eyes are open,
so one can understand
when the heart is open.

Hazrat Inayat Khan
The Bowl of Saki
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Always be on the lookout
for the presence of wonder.

E.B. White
Charlotte's Web

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Happiness because...

You are not happy because you are well.
You are well because you are happy.
You are not depressed because trouble has come to you,
but
trouble has come to you because you are depressed.

You can change your thoughts and feelings,
and then the outer things will come to correspond,
and indeed there is no other way of working.

-- Emmet Fox
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Images from Thank you

p://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/04/28/
really-stunning-pictures-and-photos/

Illuminated Rose
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open hearted
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