"T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile."

-- Joseph Addison

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“When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path to another who may be walking in darkness.”
“I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?”
“Does truth prevail more if we are not on speaking terms with those whose view of truth differs from ours?”
“So we draw lines around our property, our counties, our cities, our states, our countries. And, boy, do we act as if those lines are important. I mean, we go to war. We will kill and die to protect those boundaries. Nature couldn't give two hoots about our national boundaries ...”
“Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.”
“I'd like to come back to the West eventually. In the end abroad I am always a stranger, active politics in particular is not accessible to me and although people are generous, I can never be on the inside of a culture that relies a great deal on the private space and the family.”

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“I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.”
“Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.”

Source : Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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