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"The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship."
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"Accept yourself irrespective of your imperfection and express your skills."
"Those who seek to listen to their own inner voice forget to listen to the judgment of others."
"I wash myself clean of guilt, of pain, of fear, of emotion. I am the ocean. I am empty. I am nothing."
"Honesty can force any dysfunction in your life to the surface. Are you in an abusive relationship? A refusal to lie to others " How did you get that bruise? " would oblige you to come to grips with this situation very quickly. Do you have a problem with drugs or alcohol? Lying is the lifeblood of addiction. If we have no recourse to lies, our lives can unravel only so far without others noticing.Telling the truth can also reveal ways in which we want to grow but haven't."
"...It's just nice to see you out from his shadow. Because things don't grow in the shadows, you know? So it was frustrating to see you standing there...and really cool to see you step out of it. I don't know who this new guy is, but make sure when you're with him, you're not standing in his shadow. Stand where everyone can see you."
"Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention."
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
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"I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something."
"I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern."
"I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological."
"Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector."
"It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy."
"Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed."
"Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment."
"You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it."
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