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"Love is nothing but joy accompanied by the idea of an external cause."

Baruch Spinoza

"We can never be certain of anything unless we understand it completely."

Baruch Spinoza

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"Insofar as the mind understands all things as necessary, it has a power of affecting joy."

Baruch Spinoza

"The human body is composed of very many parts of diverse kinds."

Baruch Spinoza

"The mind's power of thinking is equal to its power of acting."

Baruch Spinoza

"Nature never orders us to hate ourselves."

Baruch Spinoza

"No one can be fundamentally denied the right to exist and enjoy life."

Baruch Spinoza

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"I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind."

Baruch Spinoza

"He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea."

Baruch Spinoza

"Joy is man's transition to a greater perfection."

Baruch Spinoza

"Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions."

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"Education is the most powerful tool for changing the world."

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"Teaching from a place of love and hope is an act of resistance."

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"Teaching and learning should bring joy."

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"Teaching is a practice of freedom."

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"We do not need to be perfect to be whole."

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"We are not just educating people; we are liberating them."

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"Love is an act of will."

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All About Love·Buy on Amazon

"The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy."

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Teaching as a Practice of Freedom·Buy on Amazon

"Education is the practice of freedom."

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"What you seek is seeking you."

Rumi

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"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop."

Rumi

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"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

Rumi

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"I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another."

Rumi

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"Let the beauty we love be what we do."

Rumi

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"The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart."

Rumi

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"The guest is inside you, and also inside me."

Rumi

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"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to happen."

Rumi

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"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."

Rumi

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"You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?"

Rumi

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"When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited."

Sri Ramakrishna

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"Sin is forgiven by tears of repentance."

Sri Ramakrishna

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"The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail."

Sri Ramakrishna

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"The greatest religion is to be true to this nature."

Sri Ramakrishna

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"God can be realized through all paths."

Sri Ramakrishna

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"As long as I live, so long do I hope."

Sri Ramakrishna

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"Knowledge leads to unity; ignorance to diversity."

Sri Ramakrishna

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"God is in all beings and all beings are in God."

Sri Ramakrishna

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"The breeze of His grace is always blowing."

Sri Ramakrishna

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"Different creeds are but different paths to the same summit."

Sri Ramakrishna

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"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night·Buy on Amazon

"To be, or not to be, that is the question."

William Shakespeare

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet·Buy on Amazon

"If music be the food of love, play on."

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night·Buy on Amazon

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream·Buy on Amazon

"Though she be but little, she is fierce."

William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream·Buy on Amazon

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."

William Shakespeare

The Tempest·Buy on Amazon

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar·Buy on Amazon

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

William Shakespeare

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

William Shakespeare

As You Like It·Buy on Amazon