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Seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their own innermost being, their true nature.

— Eckhart Tolle A New Earth (2005)

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Because the ego was never as deeply rooted in woman, it is losing its hold on women more quickly than on men.

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Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

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Hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.

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Things are changing rapidly now. With many people becoming more conscious, the ego is losing its hold on the human mind.

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You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

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True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

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The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

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Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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