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"The woman turns away; one wing blackens like an onyx gem while the other glows white like a bright spotlight. She flies into the sky, leaving the crowd staring in astonishment. Angels fly away in two directions. Half make a black storm of moving, twisting shapes. The other half forms a white-as-snow moving cloud. The ranks are divided."
"She's beauty and she's the beast, rolled into one."
"And yet sometimes it seems to me I am there, among the incriminated scenes, tottering under the attributes peculiar to the lords of creation ... Yes, more than once I almost took myself for the other, all but suffered after his fashion, the space of an instant."
"We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side."
"The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?"
"The heart pointed to the brain and said with great disdain, "Those who live their lives in here live the lives most full of fear."
"Only in duality consciousness we witness this-that thing. In reality, a unity consciousness runs as the very soul of every little thing."
"I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other."
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"When we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief."
"Much religious teaching in the world is in reality a confused or deteriorated form, very different from its roots."
"Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?"
"Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society."
"The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose."
"People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things."
"To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them."
"How many friends would you have if you went from one to another asking them to conceal a dead body?"
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