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Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought your aversion to an object that is ugly is a thought. Your craving or aversion is nothing but a passing thought in the mind. Realize this is just a thought and you will be free.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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