"Being in the moment means not being distracted by the melodrama and hysteria around you. Present-moment awareness allows solutions to emerge."
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"All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness."
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"If you live the questions, life will move you into answers."
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"So, when you have that experienced knowledge you lose the ability to hurt people and you also lose the ability to be hurt by people. That's love."
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"Intimacy blossoms anytime you let down your socially acceptable mask."
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"What will really make you attractive is not working on your weak points but embracing them."
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"As you sift through this very solid-looking body, you have to go only so far before you end up with a handful of nothing."
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"She was startled. "But you're human, aren't you?" In some ways yes. But in other ways I'm a stranger to your kind. I have a friend who calls you plucked angels, and he claims you're a total waste of spirit. Do you ever think like that?" Of course, in honest moments. But I can be just as honest and think that we aren't a spiritual waste but a spiritual potential waiting to grow."
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"It is only because you take your mind to be yourself, and make it dwell on what you are not, that you lose your sense of well-being."
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"It's an intelligence. It's not - you know, that's the other mistake we make, is we tend to project how we think of ourselves onto divinity. So divinity being infinite, unbounded, eternal, beyond space and time, is not a he or a she, it's a field of intelligence."
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"Marshall Rosenberg provides us with the most effective tools to foster health and relationships. Nonviolent Communication connects soul to soul, creating a lot of healing. It is the missing element in what we do."
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"Meditation is a good starting point, or even a little bit of contemplative reflection, asking questions like: Who am I without my name or form? What is my purpose if there is one? What do I want out of my life? What am I grateful for? Just a little bit of reflection like that starts you on the journey."
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"Every time one person becomes peaceful in their own life, it changes the world."
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"Each of us lives in multi-dimensions. We can choose where to focus our attention, and wherever that focus goes, a new reality opens up. When I speak of other dimensions, I'm referring to domains of consciousness."
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"True success is ... the experience of the miraculous. It is the unfolding of the divinity within us."
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"The struggle is part of the creative process, and it's very enjoyable to have the struggle. Without the struggle, there would be no joy in creativity. The one thing that is not enjoyable is if you get attached to the outcome. And if you're constantly looking for approval and you are not immune to criticism, then you are in trouble, and you will continue to be struggling and never find the creative impulse."
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"When you stay in the moment, you have all the time in the world, and whatever needs to be done will be completed in the exact right time."
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"Every drop of water in an ocean contains the flavor of the whole ocean. So too, every moment in time contains the flavor of eternity, if you could live in that moment, but most people do not live in the moment which is the only time they really have."
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"When we were children, there was a silent part of us watching the child. When we were adolescents, there was that same witness watching the adolescent. Middle age, and so on. Every one, now and again, has discovered the self, the one who is watching."
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"My focus is first of all, to remove every thought of violence from my own consciousness."
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