"A little child paddles a little boat, Drifting about, and picking white lotuses. He does not know how to hide his tracks, And duckweed's opened up along his path."

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Source : Bai Juyi, “On The Lake (2)”

Bai Juyi

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“Honor lies in the mane of a horse.”
“Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you will suffer, if you are an arahant, you will suffer, if you are anything at all, you will suffer.”
“On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes as usual. Sachin was nearing century, batting on 98. The passengers, railway officials, everyone on the train waited for Sachin to complete the century. This Genius can stop time in India!”
“Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.”

Source : "Stately as a Galleon". Book by Joyce Grenfell, 1978.
“I think that's really where we need to be more consistent as believers. Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help. But we will encourage the church to do that in general for anyone and everyone who's seeking to be a mature believer in Christ.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“Itâ€™s the spirit here that counts. The time may be long, the vehicle may be strange or unexpected. But if the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand, everything is still possible.”
“I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.”
“You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But youâ€™ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. Thereâ€™s no chance at all of recovery. Youâ€™ll just â€” exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost.”

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