"Don't try to be original; just try to be good."
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"The beloved is already in our being, as thirst and "otherness." Being is eroticism. Inspiration is that strange voice that takes man out of himself to be every thing that he is, everything that he desires; another body, another being. Beyond, outside of me, in the green and gold thicket, among the tremulous branches, sings the unknown. It calls to me."
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"Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end."
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"Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life."
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"What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things."
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"You become what you behold."
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"Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration."
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"It only seems impossible until it's done."
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"Those who succeed have a clear, focused picture of their success. The level of success they attain matches the expansiveness of their dreams"
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"All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle — keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate."
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"Sometimes I'm in the studio, sometimes I'm not. It's about delivering the music to the artist, but it's also about the inspiration."
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"Inspiration is finding something that excites you."
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"Grace flows through wounds."
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"One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration."
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"Keep the remembrance of your real nature alive, even while working, and avoid haste which causes you to forget. Be deliberate. Practice meditation to still the mind and cause it to become aware of its true relationship to the Self which supports it. Do not imagine that it is you who are doing the work. Think that is the underlying current which is doing it. Identify yourself with the current."
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"Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience."
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"We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does either. Therefore every moment really is the most important moment that's ever happened, including this moment right now."
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"Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton... remember, there is the face of Christ."
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"Of the 6,000 languages spoken on Earth right now, 3,000 aren't spoken by the children. In one generation, we're going to halve our cultural diversity."
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"A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika."
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