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Alicia Keys Singer, Songwriter, Actress
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"I pray before everything. When I wake up, before I eat, before I perform, before I go to sleep, in the moments I need guidance."

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William Faulkner Novelist, Poet, Playwright
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"It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid."

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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist
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"It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the arch machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as then need is."

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Ramana Maharshi Spiritual Teacher
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"The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media."

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Virginia Woolf Novelist
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"I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world."

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Rich Mullins Musician
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"We just can't love without God. God wants for us want we want for ourselves. These basic things are not that hard to grasp. We just have to have faith, and faith is a gift. We just need to accept it."

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Richard Hugo Poet, Author
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"Maximum sentence length: seventeen words. Minimum:one No semicolons. Semicolons indicate relationships that only idiots need defined by punctuation. Besides, they are ugly. Make sure each sentence is at least four words longer or shorter than the one before it."

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Robert Johnson Musician
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"Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one."

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