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"Books arent written on whim or promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writings a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back."
"I have always wanted an adventurous life. It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who could make an adventurous life happen to me."
"No matter how qualified you are, you won't reach a better life until you imagine it."
"What if somebody came along who could teach me how my world works and how to control it What if I could meet a super-advanced ... what if a Siddhartha or a Jesus came into our time, with power over the illusions of the world because he knew the reality behind them And what if I could meet him in person, if he were flying a biplane, for instance, and landed in the same meadow with me."
"Only a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that is all right. You don't have to tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds."
"With every choice you risk the life you would have had; with every decision, you lose it."
"I have a way of finding what is true for me, and it’s not finished yet."
"It's like a pulsar inside me. There is this great burst of energy, forcing me to write, and then the star goes quiet for a time, and I think it's gone, but it's gathering energy for another burst. And I seem to be almost unwilling participants in this."
"We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people."
"Everything you've said, everything you want to believe is already true. You may not find some of it for a while, and some of it might take longer than that, but that doesn't stop it from being true this minute!"
"How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble."
"It must happen to us all…We pack up what we’ve learned so far and leave the familiar behind. No fun, that shearing separation, but somewhere within, we must dimly know that saying goodbye to safety brings the only security we’ll ever know."
"Testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and LOVE!"
"I've learned that it is what I do not know that I fear, and I strive, outwardly from pride, inwardly from the knowledge that the unknown is what will finally kill me, to know all there is to be known about my airplane. I will never die."
"There is a sense of oneness that from time to time I'm aware of in my life. Certainly not all the time, and there are times when I get frightened and when I get upset. But at the best of times, it's a personal oneness."
"We [people] have a teacher! The teacher is ourselves! We already know everything we need to know - our challenge is to discover that we know it. Turning to gurus, I think, we become guru-dependent, no different from drug-dependent, alcohol-dependent - needing an outside force to control our lives."
"It’s okay is a cosmic truth…It’s okay. If there were nothing here for us to learn, we wouldn’t bother to pay the fare."
"Dying is like diving into a deep lake on a hot day. There's the shock of that sharp, cold change, the pain of it for a second, and then accepting is a swim in reality. But after so many times, even the shock wears off."
"How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were."
"Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change."