"To discover meaning is somehow to see the relatedness with everything else,/ However vaguely it may be;./ To find meaning is to see the purpose of things,/ However hazily it may be."

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“Real genuine joy is borne of sadness and sorrow.”

“Only if we see religion and science as symbols leading to the depth of reality, can we talk of meaningful dialogue between the two.”

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“It is much worse to be dead when we are alive/ Dead by the fear of death, when we are not yet dead!/ The incredible paradox of worrying to avoid death / Being the very cause of death!”

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