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I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.

-Bear Grylls

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I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.

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And even when i was broken the way sometimes one can be broken, and even though i had fallen, i found upon arising that i was stronger than before, that the glories, if i may call them that, which i had loved so much and that had been darkened in my fall, were shinning even brighter and nearly everytime subsequently i have fallen and darkness has come over me, they have obstinately arisen, not as they were, but brighter.

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So let us decide whether you want a shelter, a safety zone, which will no longer yield conflict, whether you want to escape from the present conflict to enter a condition in which there shall be no conflict; or whether you are unaware, unconscious of this conflict in which you exist. if you are unconscious of the conflict, that is, the battle that is taking place between that self and the environment, if you are unconscious of that battle, then why do you seek further remedies? remain unconscious.

It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. the important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'why am i being knocked down?' if a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.

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