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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
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It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.
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Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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When a clandestine couple kisses, it is much more likely that sex will immediately follow. This is because there is much more risk. Once you have kissed secretly, it is very difficult not to have sex. It would be impolite not to have sex. You have to show that you are serious about each other.
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Drawing is like the first kiss. It carries within it the deepest emotion and the challenge of the first step. It is the first cry after birth
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All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache.
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In childhood we all have ... a far higher sensibility for April and April evenings - a heartache for them, which in riper years is gradually and irretrievably consoled.
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There isn't heartache if there hasn't been joy. I wouldn't feel loss if there hadn't been love.
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If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.
