"If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way. The truth is I am not what you want me to be."
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"You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also."
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"I can say, 'Well, I'm a male. I'm a male human. I'm a medical doctor. I'm an author...' If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, 'I am a soul. I am a spirit.' If I go into science, I will say, 'I am energy. I am light.' But the truth is I have no idea what I am."
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"And what is the right woman, the right man? Someone who wants to go in the same direction as you do, someone who is compatible with your views and your values-- emotionally, physically, economically, spiritually."
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"True justice is to pay one time for every mistake we make."
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"Life doesn't need to be justified or judged."
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"You don't need to justify your love, you don't need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master."
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"What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being."
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"A sin is anything you do which goes against yourself"
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"Everything that is true is authentic."
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"To have faith is to believe unconditionally."
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"For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free."
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"The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else’s story."
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"It's incredible what we can do if we really want to do it. All we need is to be aware of what we are doing and to return to the authenticity we were born with."
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"Help me to change the world is an invitation to be authentic, to follow your heart, to be free of superstitions and lies. And I'm not asking you to try to change the world. Don't try: just do it."
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"In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth."
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"The word is a force you cannot see, but you can see the manifestation of that force, the expression of the word, which is your own life."
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"The human mind is like a fertile ground were seed are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. You plant a seed, a thought grows, and it grows. The word is like a seed and the human mind is so fertile!"
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"the real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself"
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"The truth is the most important part of being impeccable with your word...Only the truth will set us free."
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