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"Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself."
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"When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others."

"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course."

"If the sun needed friends to shine, it would not rule the sky alone."

"Any human being should be capable of three things to earn such title: live alone, hunt and drive anything with or without wheels. If you don't have these three things, you're either a slave or an animal. Any idea about being social or human has been cleverly associated with these two things, in order to make believe that being a social animal is the ideal to aspire for, especially if such animal is enslaved by a certain amount of ideals promoted by the system that gives him life and cuts it off as soon as he shows himself undeserving."

"If you're not afraid of working hard, self-reliance comes easy!"

"Stop looking outside or at others for that which you seek of yourself."

"My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones."

"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."

"Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources."
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"When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight."

"Forgiveness is like the martial arts of consciousness. In aikido and other martial arts, we sidestep our attacker's force rather than resisting it. The energy of the attack then boomerangs back in the direction of the attacker. forgiveness works in the same way. When we attack back, and defense is a form of attack, we initiate a war which no one can win."

"In business as well as in everything else, you're in business to spread love. Your agency should spread love, your screenplay should spread love, your store should spread love, your life should spread love. The key to a successful career is realizing that it s not separate from the rest of your life, but is rather an extension of your most basic self and your most basic self is love."

"As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way."

"The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it."

"Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life."

"The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love."
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