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"Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness."

"Do not take to heart any ill-action."

"The change we want is within us and shall always be within us, the change we can have is in the steps we can take to realize the change we want. Take a step if you want a change!"

"I have never distinguished readily between thinking and dreaming. I know my life would be much different if I could ever say, This I have learned from my senses, while that I have merely imagined."

"Emergency dance party--go away."

"Opposities are married."


"Remembering what you've been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in."

"She said, "Right now, while we have this time, I'm not going to do any of that other stuff. I'm going to seize this moment and simply enjoy being with Jesus while I can." Mary made a deliberate choice. She wasn't being lazy and using company as an excuse to get out of helping her sister with chores. She was choosing to focus on what mattered the most."


"Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside - remembering all the times you've felt that way."

"I stress the expansion and elaboration of language. In simplifying it, reducing it, we reduce the power of our expression and our power to communicate. Standardization, the use of worn-out formulas, impedes communication because it does not match the subtlety of our minds or emotions, the multimedia of our unconscious life."


"The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives."

"When we quit focusing on the wrong in the past or the uncertainty of the future, we get to monitor and determine our emotional states, as we enjoy and surrender to our present moment with confidence that we shall be led to our next destination."

"Modify the environmental radiation and you will change the course of evolution."

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."

"Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought."

"That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison."

"Defeat the warriors of patience and time with Cosmic Ordering."


"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."

"Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague."

"The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor."

"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle."


"When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide."

"If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self."

"Some people will still find a way to create a fire with wet logs."

"Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth."

"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain."

"The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven."

"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence."


"Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child."


"Whenever God allows a mass blindness to cover his church, it is not out of stupidity, it is out of divine providence."

"Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!"

"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."

"During the Vietnam War, every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high."

"No news is good news unless it is told."

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
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