You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
You are not something that is a visitor on the earth and doesn't belong here. You are the earth.
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, should consider itself a lonely outsider in this universe?
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
You are not an accident. Existence needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.
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