Learn to be secretly happy within your heart in spite of all circumstances, and say to yourself, "Happiness is the greatest divine birthright — the buried treasure of my soul. I have found that I am secretly rich beyond the dream of kings."
— Paramhansa Yogananda

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In being real, in staying devoted to this energy of realness, we help each other grow towards the one vital light.
----Mark Nepo

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There is something in staying close to men and women,
and looking on them, and in the contact and odor of them, that pleases the soul well,
All things please the soul, but these please the soul well.
-----Walt Whitman

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revelers at last year's eighth grade dance

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