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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"When life gives you pain, give life your unconditional love."

"You, your thoughts, and your imagination control the doorway to happiness. Service to the humanity is key to that doorway."
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"There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's."

"The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase."

"He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love, the common or garden variety: love as a crippling condition. Love as a syndrome."

"The circularity of influence was like a trail of dominoes falling in four dimensions. Each time one slapped another and fell to the ground, from a different vantage point it appeared knocked upright, ready to be slapped and fall again. Everything was not merely relative, it was--how to put it? --relevant. Representational. Revealing. Referential and reverential both."

"Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do."

"Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things; but on the edge of things, we notice much."

"A world emerging, daily, out of nothing, a world that we trust to resemble what we've seen previously. We should know better."

"It's been a long, rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness."
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