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The political campaign won't tire me, for I have an advantage. I can be myself.

—John F. Kennedy

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

—Cris Williamson

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God glows and flames . . . Eternity, believe it or not; it's as real as shit.

—Aldous Huxley in Island

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We've discovered that the earth isn't flat; that we won't fall off its edges, and our experience as a species has changed as a result. Maybe we'll soon find out that the self isn't "flat" either, and that death is as real and yet as deceptive as the horizon; that we don't fall out of life either.

—Jane Roberts, Seth Speaks

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There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe.

—Ram Dass

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The vital democratic connection between community and leadership, between the mass and the several elites, has been so wrenched and perverted that disastrous policies go unchallenged time and again . . .

—The Port Huron Statement, 1962 Students for a Democratic Society

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Building a great tradition is more rewarding than simply having one.

—J. R. Slaughter

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You work that you may keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth. For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life's procession, that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.

—Kahlil Gibran

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The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings the past and the future are not as real, but more real than the present.

—Alan Watts

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I am myself plus my circumstance, and if I do not save it, I cannot save myself.

—Ortega y Gasset

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There are numerous sidetracks which lead to a distorted ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques.

—Chogyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

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Those who justify themselves do not convince. To know truth one must get rid of knowledge; nothing is more powerful and creative than emptiness.

—Laozi

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It's a kind of test, Mary, and it's the only kind that amounts to anything. When something rotten like this happens, then you have your choice. You start to really be alive, or you start to die. That's all.

—James Agee A Death In The Family

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Dare we open our doors to the source of our being? What are flesh and bones for?

—Paul Reps

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There is only one thing pain is good for. It teaches you to love. God bless pain.

—Joey Goldfarb

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