"The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder."
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"That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have."
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"One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be."
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"A writer, or a beginning writer, is faced by the huge walls of self-consciousness. Most people think, "What if I say the wrong thing? What if I don't sound erudite and sophisticated? I'll be considered a fool." In time, with a lot of practice, you realize that's your foolishness is your gift."
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"We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill."
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"Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end."
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"Life tells you nothing, it shows you everything."
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"The first prerequisite of an advanced being is a sense of humor."
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"We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome."
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"Part One: I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. Part Two: Everybody else is free to do whatever they feel like doing, for a living. Part Three: Responsible is Able to Respond, able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is ourselves."
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"I think the source of our sorrow and the source of our joy are intimately entwined. Our sorrow is that we have forgotten who we are, we have forgotten we are one with that source of all life - absolutely indestructible, perfect, joyful. The source of our joy is when we remember that."
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"I don't think creativity is mine to maintain. It automatically comes when we declare that "I am an expression of life, and life will express itself through me in the most playful and wonderful of ways, if I let it.""
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"Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love."
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"We look at some people as if they were special, gifted, divine. Nobody is special and gifted and divine. No more than you are, no more than I am. The only difference, the very only one, is that they have begun to understand what they really are and have begun to practice it."
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"You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self."
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"Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are."
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"The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise."
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"Judge not by the form of the messenger, but the form of the message."
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"Reality lies far beyond space and time, and I need to know why."
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"You've given up your whole life to be the person you are now. Is it worth it?"
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