Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.

Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.

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The problem is that they don't even realize that they're walking a new road every day. They don't see that the fields are new and the seasons change. All they think about is food and water

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If someone isn't what others want them to be, the other become angry.

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After weeks on the road, listening to a language you don’t understand, using a currency whose value you don’t comprehend, walking down streets you’ve never walked down before, you discover that your old “I,” along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences.

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Life becomes interesting for the possibility to fulfill a dream.

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But we must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there is no rules. (….) The heart decides, and what it decides is all that really matters.

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you don't need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago,

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