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"You don't need to be an expert in order to achieve satisfactory investment returns. But if you aren't, you must recognize your limitations and follow a course certain to work reasonably well. Keep things simple and don't swing for the fences."
"I do what I love, and I love what I do. I think we all were intended out of a field of energy called love, so you must be love in order to intend."
"[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed."
"Happiness is your real nature. You identify with yourself with the body and mind, feel it's limitations, and suffer. Realize your true self in order to open the store of happiness. That true self is the reality, the Supreme Truth, which is the self of all the world you now see, the self of all the selves, the One real, the Supreme, the Eternal self - as distinct from the ego or the bodily idea for the self."
"My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead."
"So many people feel that they have to wait for certain experiences in order to feel the emotions they desire. For instance, they don't give themselves permission to feel loved or happy or confident unless a particular set of expectations is met. I'm here to tell you that you can feel any way you choose at any moment in time."
"Everyday there's more death, and plus I'm doughless. I'm seeing more reasons for me to proceed with thieving."
"Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die - but this is sensuality's cowardly lust for life, that contemptible order of things where one lives in order to eat and drink instead of eating and drinking in order to live."
"Every time I go into a new venture, I find a "rabbi" who has the business acumen to help me understand the mechanics of that industry, the costs involved in developing a product, and what you need to do in order to make a profit."
"Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening."
"It is God's kindness to terrify you in order to lead you to safety."
"I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one."
"In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it."
"Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively."
"You must believe you have limitless potential in order to manifest your genius fully. Tell yourself every day, "I am a genius," and believe it."
"We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality."
"You can practice deep listening in order to relieve the suffering in us, and in the other person. That kind of listening is described as compassionate listening. You listen only for the purpose of relieving suffering in the other person."
"Time was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance."
"In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself."
"Order is not goodness; but perhaps it is the indispensable road to arrive at it."
