"I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water."
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"Maybe [artistry] doesn't have to be quite so full of anguish if you never happened to believe, in the first place, that the most extraordinary aspects of your being came from you. But maybe if you just believed that they were on loan to you from some unimaginable source for some exquisite portion of your life to be passed along when you're finished ... it starts to change everything."
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"Of course, we all inevitably work too hard, then we get burned out and have to spend the whole weekend in our pajamas, eating cereal straight out of the box and staring at the TV in a mild coma (which is the opposite of working, yes, but not exactly the same thing as pleasure)."
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"I had a great teacher in India who said to me, 'If you think you're spiritual and evolved and enlightened, go home for Christmas.'"
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"The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go."
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"The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not."
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"I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God."
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"We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses--one foot is on the horse called "fate," the other on the horse called "free will." And the question you have to ask every day is--which horse is which? Which horse do I need to stop worrying about because it's not under my control, and which do I need to steer with concentrated effort?"
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"I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything this man say about God. Never argue about God with him. Best thing to say is, 'I agree with you.' Then you go home, pray what you want. This is my idea for people to have peace about religion."
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"Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in love with the most unlikely of partners, and to set themselves up for the most predicatable of calamities."
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"Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss."
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"But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons."
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"When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are. Mature. And then go find somebody to share that life with."
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"I can honestly say [that writing] is the best life there is, because you get to live within the realm of your own mind, and that is a profoundly rare human privilege."
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"A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?"
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"And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?"
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"Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy."
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"Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding."
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"Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself."
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"You have no idea how strong my love is!"
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