"To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it."
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"Like many of you, I was concerned about going out into the world and doing something bigger than myself. Until someone smarter than myself made me realize that there is nothing bigger than myself."
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"Is it not a thing most abominable, that God who feeds so many mouths, should be held in such low esteem by me, that I will not trust him to feed me? Yea, that a guilder, thirty-eight cents, should be valued more highly than God, who pours out his treasures everywhere in rich profusion. For the world is full of God and his works. He is everywhere present with his gifts, and yet we will not trust in him, nor accept his visitation."
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"If your Eyes are Positive, You will Love the World. But if Your Tongue is Positive, The World will Love you."
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"How will we experience the world a month, a year, or five years from now? Will we be even angrier, more grasping and fearful, or will some shift have occurred? This depends entirely on the tendencies we reinforce today."
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"In contrast we let go of existence, meaning, and the sublime as categories to describe the object “God.” Instead these become ways in which we engage with the world. Yet, as we affirm the world in love, we indirectly sense that in letting go of God we have, in fact, found ourselves at the very threshold of God."
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"I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there."
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"It's an amazing thing to be able to fall into the world of your childhood fantasy."
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"Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth."
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"Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face."
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"The world is full of paper, write to me"
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"Oh I can't keep it in; I can't keep it in, I've gotta let it out I've got to show the world; world's got to see, See all the love; love that's in me"
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"Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world."
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"In a world that has lost a sense of sin, one sin remains: Thou shalt not make people feel guilty (except, of course, about making people feel guilty). In other words, the only sin today is to call something a sin."
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"In a world that we know can feed itself, upwards of 40,000 children die very day from conditions of malnutrition. Surely we must question why we are allowing this carnage to continue"
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"The world seems to belong to those who reach out and grab it with both hands. It belongs to those who do something rather than just wish and hope and plan and pray, and intend to do something someday, when everything is just right."
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"You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this Universe. You didn't come into this world; you came out of it. Like a wave from the ocean."
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"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."
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"As I have said so many times, God doesn't play dice with the world."
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"The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously."
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