Vimala Thakar Quotes

#1. Friendship inspires and enriches the lives of those who come together.

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#2. You may know the pain of possessing and dependency, reducing persons to objects, but this is not love. Love doesn't attempt to bind, ensnare, capture. It is light, free of the burden of attachments. Love asks nothing, is fulfilled in itself. When love is there, nothing remains to be done.

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#3. When we see the wholeness of being born, living, and dying, there is a joy in living and a grace in dying.

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#4. When the state of observation is sustained, it changes the quality of your biological structure. The nerves are steady, the chemical system has an equilibrium, and there is relaxation, equipoise. You live in the clarity of knowing who you are.

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#5. The life that the dawn brings us is the only life we have. Life
is in the here and now, not in the there and afterwards.

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#6. As we deepen in understanding, the arbitrary divisions between inner and outer disappear. The essence of life, the beauty and grandeur of life, is its wholeness.

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#7. Meditation is meeting eternity in the present moment. It is resolving every problem as it comes. It is resolving every tension as it creeps in. It is facing the challenges of life in a non-fearful way.

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#8. Nothing in life is trivial. Life is whole wherever and whenever we touch it, and one moment or event is not less sacred than another.

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#9. To take a journey of a thousand miles, you have to begin with the first step from the place where you stand; the romantic description of the journey and the things the body sees on the way and the description of the scenery are of no use unless you lift your foot and take the first step.

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#10. Life is in the here and now.
Either we meet it, we live it-or we miss it.

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#11. Revolution, total revolution, implies experimenting with the impossible. And when an individual takes a step in the direction of the new, the impossible, the whole human race travels through that individual.

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