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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

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The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

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People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

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Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

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I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.

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I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

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It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand.

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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

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The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

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It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

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It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.

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To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.

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What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.

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Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

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Want to know if a given behavior is a soft addiction? If any of these characteristics apply, chances are it is: zoning out, avoiding feelings, compulsiveness, denial/rationalization, stinking thinking, and hiding or lying about the behavior.

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Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.

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When one pauses to consider how thoroughly corrupted our censors must be by this time, it is difficult to have any faith whatever in their judgement of what is and is not corrupting to others. If to the pure all things are pure, it may well follow that to the corrupted all things are corrupt.

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