"Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life."
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"The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope."
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"If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard- let him worry about cutting it."
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"The ageless melody, unheard, heals; the healing vision, unseen, leads; the true leaders, immortal, know..."
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"Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."
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"Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand."
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"Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas on a busy Saturday night. Seeing two guys who'd just as soon cut each other's throats in their off hours moving in unison with grace and ease can be as uplifting as any chemical stimulant or organized religion."
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"As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams."
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"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
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"My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature."
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"What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them."
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"In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact."
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"Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours."
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"My music, it breathes. It's the mysticism of sound. I'm a sound seeker, and I'm enthralled with it, by what it can do to change the molecules and uplift people. They feel something when we play. I can't take authorship for that. I can take that I'm in service."
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"You put together two people who have not been put together before; and sometimes the world is changed, sometimes not. They may crash and burn, or burn and crash. But sometimes, something new is made, and then the world is changed. Together, in that first exaltation, that first roaring sense of uplift, they are greater than their two separate selves. Together, they see further, and they see more clearly."
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"The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal."
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"As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun."
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"The course of true anything never does run smooth."
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"The knowledge that unites love and wisdom, that uplifts the spirit is spirituality. The knowledge which gives you a broad vision and a big heart is spirituality."
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"The dreamers are the saviors of the world."
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