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You can resolve to live your life with integrity.
Let your credo be this:
Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph.
But not through me.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Lecture (1972)
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You are so weak. Give up to grace.
The ocean takes care of each wave
till it gets to shore.
You need more help than you know.
You’re trying to live your life in open scaffolding.
Say Bismillah, In the name of God,
as the priest does with a knife when he offers an animal.
Bismillah your old self
to find your real name.
– Jalal Al-Din Rumi
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If you know the enemy and know yourself,
you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
If you know yourself but not the enemy,
for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
If you know neither the enemy or yourself,
you will succumb in every battle.
-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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But consider emptiness.
– The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks
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