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The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.

Albert Schweitzer

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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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Mont-Libre
Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer
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Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.
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Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities.
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The demands of Jesus are difficult just because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time he asks us to regard these as something usual, ordinary.
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Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
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Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.
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Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own
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A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.
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Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
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You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as a mysterious law of existence. In obedience to it we have to fulfill our destiny.
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It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.
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I still remain convinced that truth, love, peaceableness, meekness, and kindness are the violence which can master all other violence. The world will be theirs as soon as ever a sufficient number of people with purity of heart, with strength, and with perseverance think and live out the thoughts of love and truth, of meekness and peaceableness.
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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing.
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We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.
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