"The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'"
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"Once you have found out what you love to do, there is only one goal: to be the best in the world at it."
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"The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur. -People who think they are trapped in a river of regularized and ever-repeating time are merely the victims of their own ordinarizing minds that have elaborated for them a prison-cell of everydayness. The fountains of time, history, life, inspiration, etc. are fresh every instant, if one knows how to grasp them with some finesse: every instant within natural, historical, and personal time is unique."
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"Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'"
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"It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected."
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"The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul."
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"What we say does not matter - only what God says to souls through us."
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"I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?'"
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"Modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay in the caves in Western Europe, in the Aurignacian Period some 35,000 years ago, or earlier. I can't believe they did all those things and didn't also have a modern language."
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"The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger."
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"The realization that we are all basically the same human beings who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering is very helpful in developing a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood; a warm feeling of love and compassion for others."
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"When you know God as peace within, then you will realize Him as peace existing in the universal harmony of all things without."
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"The three classic ways in which the Devil tempts us are with a threat, a promise or a seduction."
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"People make a lot of effort not to remember, not to accept their immense magical potential."
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"A warrior of the Light does not rely on strength alone; he makes use of his opponent's energy, too."
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"All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world."
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"Everything is allowed, except interrupting a manifestation of love."
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"And he never judges someone else's suffering."
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"God is love, generosity and forgiveness; if we believe in this, we will never allow our weaknesses to paralyse us."
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"Choosing one path means abandoning others - if you try to follow every possible path you will end up following none."
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