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Walter Russell Artist, Author, Philosopher
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"When I arrived at the point where I received public acclaim, I felt the most lowly, because I knew within myself that I had but begun to tap my inner resources."

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Walter Russell Artist, Author, Philosopher
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"So that I may meet the day with the knowledge to build the day I will look into my soul while it still dawn, before the morning breaketh."

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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk
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"I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face."

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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk
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"The secret of my full identity is hidden in Him. He alone can make me who I am, or rather who I will be when at last I fully begin to be. But unless I desire this identity and work to find it with Him and in Him, the work will never be done"

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Rita Wilson Actress
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"I always did sing. It's always been something I love to do but it has also been the most private and most secret thing that you don't really want to let the world in on."

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"The soul which cannot endure fire and smoke won't find the Secret."

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Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author
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"He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power."

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