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"As someone who struggles with anxiety and cowardice, as we all do, I'm profoundly inspired by. . . . full-on commitment to wonder, to wonder as a response to anguish or difficulty. It makes everything a puzzle, right? A catastrophe is nothing but a puzzle with the volume of drama turned up very high."
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"Messages focused on miracle will breed in the mind of people the mentality that production is not necessary for prosperity."
"Openness is also an acceptance that just as you have the inherent right to create your life as you see fit, so others have the same right with their own lives, even if their design differs from yours greatly."
"We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them."
"Philosophers think, creators make!"
"All the love, learning and opportunities that you seek come from being open to life not being closed throughout it."
"Regardless of whether luck or coincidence is involved, desires directed in the right way have a tendency to manifest."
"You never can change the reality without changing the perception."
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"Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy of any one family's history."
"It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case if that I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something."
"Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people."
"He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. And he was a scholar.... You can still live on that shimmering line between your old thinking and your new understanding, always in a state of learning. In the figurative sense, this is a border that is always moving-- as you advance forward in your studies and realizations, that mysterious forest of the unknown always stays a few feet ahead of you, so you have to travel light in order to keep following it. You have to stay mobile, movable, supple."
"What is it about the American obsession with productivity and responsibility that makes it so difficult for us to allow ourselves a little time to solve the puzzle of our own lives, before it's too late?"
"Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order."
"The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being's difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself."
"You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."
"But I was always coming here. I though about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen."
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