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This is peace, this is the excellent, namely the calm of all the impulses, the casting out of all basis, the extinction of craving, dispassion, stopping, Nirvana.

The Master said, In the morning, hear the Way; in the evening, die content!

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Everything passes away – suffering, pain, blood, hunger, pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will still remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the earth. There is no man who does not know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes towards the stars? Why?

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soul,And sings the tune without the words,And never stops at all.

Hope is a waking dream.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.