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"In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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Personal Development
"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
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"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it."
Art
"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination."
Life
"I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning."
Learning
"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."
Change
"In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness."
Experience
"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."
Change
"With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can."
Life
"When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic."
People
"The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true."
Fact
"In my early professionals years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?"
Change
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