"Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know."
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"Today I release the need to blame anyone, including myself."
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"Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we need?"
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"Guys have to look up to somebody. Everybody needs to have their own role and somebody has to be the star."
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"If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed."
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"The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body."
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"It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs."
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"I think we need missile defense. But I want to make sure it works, that it's cost effective, that the technologies are operable, that it's our best possible strategy, and that hasn't been shown."
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"Those of us in positions of responsibility, we'll need to be less concerned with the judgment of special interests and well-connected donors, and more concerned with the judgment of posterity."
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"Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and irritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes."
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"If you look like your passport photo, in all probability you need the journey."
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"Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disappointments before you realize that truth"
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"No practice can take you to liberation. That is important to know. It can be a little step that is useful until you realize you don't need it anymore, because after a certain point it becomes a hindrance."
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"Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river."
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"To be a seeker implies that you need the future. If this is what you believe, it becomes true for you: you will need time until you realize that you don't need time to be who you are."
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"Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now."
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"The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be."
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"There's something in human beings, not all human beings, that is ready for the change in consciousness. It needs to happen now if humanity is not to destroy itself and the planet."
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"Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper."
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""The warrior who trusts his path doesn't need to prove the other is wrong."
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