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" I’m so sorry. She’s just like that, mean about the mouth. Please don’t feel bad.’
‘Why should I? Women like her are a gift: they hold in their hands the keys to heaven. Although at first glance it may seem they are our enemies, in reality, they have undertaken to provide us with valuable opportunities to be gentle and patient. To act with love. They do this at great cost to themselves – all the tears I cry she will wipe from her own eyes. It is the law of the universe that as you stretch your hand to give to another, you give to yourself. If today she happens to look askance at me, tomorrow, the day after, the following year, or a decade later, when even she has forgotten she once did the same, she will endure an equally disparaging sideways glance. "
― Rani Manicka , The Japanese Lover
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" Майя на Парвати:
- Защо изобщо да им казваш нещо? Като спориш, ще изгубиш не само приятелството им, но което е по-важно, и ценна енергия. А и те са се преродили в определена раса, за да научат всички уроци и да изживеят всички възможности, които тя им предлага. Така че, ако искат да се омъжат за човек с техния произход и да имат деца от него, коя си ти, че да ги убеждавш в противното. Да ги обвиня ли в расизъм за това, че не искат да си сменят расата с моята? Остави ги. Защо да им попарваме илюзиите за превъзходство? Като прибягват към предразсъдъка, те показват липсата на увереност в собствнеата си стойност. Пожелай им всичко най-хубаво. Не бива да ги съдиш. Не прави като тях. Не търси различията. Търси приликите. "
― Rani Manicka , The Japanese Lover
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" To encounter divinity in all His fullness would be impossible for man, so he sees a light, a burning bush, an angel, an apparition on a cross, and he calls it God. But with the usual arrogance of man, he then starts believing that that small part he has taken is the All. The carved stone is a symbol. Anything you worship can become God because God exists in every living and dead thing you see. He is everywhere and in everything. If one believed enough in a piece of rock, that rock will one day open its eyes, and show the God that lives in it. It doesn’t matter if one decided to worship a stone, a man, a tree, or a snake. Believe and it will be. ‘God will manifest Himself to you in whatever form will fill your eyes with tenderness. What difference to God if it is a dying man on a cross or a serpent that is used to remind his devotee of Him? It is important only to love Him with all your heart. "
― Rani Manicka , The Japanese Lover