"Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living."
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"Sometimes people need to experience acute suffering before the thinking and the awareness of the consciousness separate. People then realize there is another dimension in them that is not thinking but the ability to be aware of thinking. It is not emotion but the ability to be aware of emotion."
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"Make sure your goals are dynamic, that is to say, point toward an activity that you are engaged in and through which you are connected to other human beings as well as to the whole. See yourself inspiring countless people with your work and enriching their lives. Feel yourself being an opening through which energy flows from the unmanifested Source of all life through you for the benefit of all."
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"It's a wonderful thing to perceive the world and to interact with it and with other people and nature from that deep place of utter stillness, where the compulsion to immediately label and interpret whatever arises around you is no longer there."
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"Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment."
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"A lot of loud people have been talking over the years; they have these huge voices but don't say much. I'm sure there are a lot of really quiet people who have a lot more intelligent things to say than the loud people."
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"I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy."
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"People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything."
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"I'm not a big TV watcher, but I know that Discovery is a teaching network. And they've been so awesome to me, I love those people."
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"I want to say to the American people, we hear you. We will do right by you."
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"Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie."
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"Social change comes through people."
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"In problem-posing education, people develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with which and in which they find themselves; they come to see the world not as a static reality, but as a reality in process, in transformation."
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"To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie."
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"Libertarian action must recognize this dependence as a weak point and must attempt through reflection and action to transform it into independence. However, not even the best-intentioned leadership can bestow independence as a gift. The liberation of the oppressed is a liberation of women and men, not things. Accordingly, while no one liberates himself by his own efforts alone, neither is he liberated by others. Liberation, a human phenomenon, cannot be achieved by semihumans. Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them."
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"People make a lot of effort not to remember, not to accept their immense magical potential."
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"People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves."
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"Philosophy can't build bridges, but can encourage people to cross them."
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"If we resist the temptation to allow other people to define who we are, then we will gradually be able to let the sun inside our own soul shine forth."
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"I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be."
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