"Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual."

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"All living beings are different from Him and from each other and are subordinate to Him, all their actions are controlled by Him."

— Madhvacharya

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"As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion."

— Marcus Aurelius

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"An old woman wept among the white faces. Two men carrying a body. An old dog crawling on his belly, dragging his hind legs. Several bodies in the corner of the lot, beside a shed, blood-soaked sheets …"

— John Fante

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