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You are a wish to be here wishing yourself.

—Philip Whalen

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The sword embedded in the stone. . .it's a beautiful symbol, no one can get it out. Then someone comes along and takes it out with no effort because it was his sword. You have a woman who's made of stone. No one can remove his phallus from her. You come and remove it with no effort. You can do it because she is your woman. Because when she had the phallus inside her, it was immobile. Because it was yours. And you went through life castrated. But when you laid your pelvis against hers, you recovered your phallus and you were able to enter and withdraw with ease. And then water came from the stone. And that water fell on your testicles, and your testicles bloomed, like flowers.

—Alexandro Jodorowsky

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Giving/Your life has brought you closer to your friends./Yes, it has brought you home. All's well that ends.

—Robert Lowell

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Wrath springs only from thwarted desires. I do not expect anything from others, so their actions cannot be in opposition to wishes of mine. I would not use you for my own ends; I am happy only in your own true happiness.

—Sri Yukteswar

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Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, stains the white radiance of eternity.

—William James

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I am so convinced that a work is something that, once it has come forth from us, is worth more than we are, that I find it quite natural to sacrifice myself for it as a father would for his child. But this idea must not lead me to address others about what can, unfortunately, only interest me.

—Proust

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Exactitude in some small matters is the very soul of discipline.

—Joseph Conrad

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Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.

—Chögyam Trungpa

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Love is all fire; and so heaven and hell are the same place.

—Thomas Merton

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To feel life is meaningless unless "I" can be permanent, is like having desperately having fallen in love with an inch.

—Franz Kafka

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Don't goof off.

—John Fowles

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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstacy at your feet.

—Ted Berrigan, In The Early Morning Rain

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Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass.

—Aldous Huxley in Island

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Through his tears Dr. Robert smiled back at her. "So now you can let go, my darling." He stroked her gray hair. "Now you can let go. Let go," he insisted. "Let go of this poor old body. You don't need it anymore. Let it fall away from you. Leave it lying there like a pile of worn-out clothes . . . Go on, go on into the Light, into the peace, into the living peace of the Clear Light.

—Unknown

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Brighter," came the barely audible whisper, "brighter." And a smile of happiness intense almost to the point of elation transfigured her face.

—Unknown

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