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“When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We are not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.”

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“We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.”

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“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.”

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“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”

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“God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.”

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“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”

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“Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.”

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“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”

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“We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.”

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“When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.”

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“If you realize what the real problem is - losing yourself - you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.”

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