"Life cannot be against you, for you are Life itself. Life can only seem to go against the ego's projections, which are rarely the truth."
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"The world is not something separate from you and me; the world, society, is the relationship that we establish or seek to establish between each other. So you and I are the problem, and not the world, because the world is the projection of ourselves, and to understand the world we must understand ourselves. That world is not separate from us; we are the world, and our problems are the world's problems."
"Things outside you are projections of what's inside you, and what's inside you is a projection of what's outside. So when you step into the labyrinth outside you, at the same time you're stepping into the labyrinth inside."
"The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind."
"The world is a projection of our thoughts - the thoughts we believe."