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"The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself."
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"We live in the shadows of perception. Our dull awareness gives us no useful clues as to why we are here."
"Disquietude that springs from the fundamental nature of being a human being is vaster and more encompassing than depression, which has a cause and therefore a cure."
"All life depends upon the opportunistic interplay between elemental forces, the mysterious dualities of the numinous universe. Ying and yang forces of the natural world (lightness and darkness, fire and water, expansion and contraction) create tangible dualities that are complementary, interconnected, and independent. Without the firmament in the midst of the waters, without both sunshine and water, no life forms could subsist on this rocky orb. Without the rich soil surrounded by a canopy of an illimitable sky how could we feed ourselves, how could we breathe?"
"It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs."
"This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These in pace, these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed with a lid of granite like a tomb, with this difference, that the dead man here was a living being, that soil which is but mud, that vault hole, those oozing walls, --what declaimers!"
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"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."
"To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance."
"It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny."
"Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains."
"It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate."
"It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression."
"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."
"It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities."
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