"We don't have rights until we claim them."
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"Do you ever have the feeling you're a tourist on earth?"
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"If you want magic, let go of your armor. Magic is so much stronger than steel."
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"One must first learn to fall if one would fly."
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"So this world, I think, and an indefinite number of other worlds of our creation, are also - we're here for fun; we're here for learning; we're here for remembering who we are, and who we are, are expressions of life so absolutely linked with the life that is, always was, always will be."
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"Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love."
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"The world is a dream, you say, and it’s lovely, sometimes. Sunset. Clouds. Sky.” “No. The image is a dream. The beauty is real. Can you see the difference?"
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"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift, that's why we call it the present. If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And If not now, when? A brick alone is nothing but a brick. It takes a collection of bricks to build a house. Instructor, what?? You mean you teach best what you most need to learn"
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"You teach best that which you need most to learn."
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"Every real teacher is myself in disguise."
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"Have you ever felt so at one with the world, with the universe, with everything that is, that you were overcome with love? That is reality. That is the truth. What we make of it is up to us, as the painting of the sunrise is up to the artist. In our world humanity has strayed from that love. It lives hatred and power struggles and manipulations of the earth itself for its own narrow reasons. Continue and no one will see the sunrise. The sunrise will always exist, of course, but people on earth will know nothing of it and finally even stories of its beauty will fade from our knowing."
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"You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds."
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"There were times in my life when I said, "Oh God, I'm making a terrible, terrible mistake here." And on another level it looked as if that's exactly what I had done. All of us can look back across our lives and see what we thought was a disaster was actually a blessing - from a long-term perspective, it was a blessing. With practice, we can shorten the length of time between "what a dumb mistake I've made" and "what a brilliant choice that was."
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"My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over."
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"If we agree that the world is not what it seems, then we have an important question: What shall we do about it?"
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"Shop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price."
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"Our disasters have been some of the best things that ever happened to us. And what we swore were blessings have been some of the worst."
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"The one thing we fear most is the one thing that is not possible: We cannot die, we cannot be destroyed."
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"Next to God, love is the word most mangled in every language. The highest form of regard between two people is friendship, and when love enters, friendship dies."
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"We're all the sons of God, or children of the Is, or ideas of the Mind, or however else you want to say it."
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