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Stephen Mitchell is a renowned American translator, anthologist, and poet. He has translated the go-to editions of religious and literary works such as the Tao Te Ching, the Bhagavad Gita, Gilgamesh, the Gospels, the selected works of Rainer Maria Rilke, and Beowulf. Mitchell coauthors works on mindfulness meditation for self-healing with his wife, Byron Katie.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe physical body is acknowledged as dust, the personal drama as delusion. It is as if the world we perceive through our senses, that whole gorgeous and terrible pageant, were the breath-thin surface of a bubble, and everything else, inside and outside, is pure radiance.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageKnowledge is better than practice; meditation is better than knowledge; and best of all is surrender, which soon brings peace.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhen there’s no way out, you just follow the way in front of you.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhat may appear to be proud ungrateful and headstrong fron the outside may from the inside express an unshakable integrity of character. Pride, if it doesn’t step over the line into arrogance, is simply an unprejudiced self-esteem.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhat we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageAll streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power. If you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below them. If you want to lead the people, you must learn how to follow them.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageBut self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageHappily ever after doesn’t begin with Once upon a time: it begins with Now.

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