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"Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel."
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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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"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

"An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind."

"People who truly live their lives don't have time to complain or judge others. They're too busy enjoying life and love and everything in between!"
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"Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things."


"I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people."


"And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people."


"Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!"


"You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection."


"If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth."


"Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage."


"One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying."


"There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go."


"None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature."
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