A Quote by Tom Stoppard
What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.
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No one on this earth attains enlightenment anymore without an enlightened master as a guide, unless that person was enlightened in many previous incarnations.
For a long time, I thought that I was an enlightened parent by virtue of being an enlightened person. What a fool.
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