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Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.

Does Effects Global Go
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May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

Compassion Enemies Love May
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Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

Anything Going Maturity No-One
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In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
Appetites Beings False Glorious
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Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

Always Easy Feels Forgive
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I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.
Never Practice Seen Separate
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I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'

Being Campaign Cheerleader Considered
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Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.

Ability Anything Key Lies
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Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.
Authenticity Because Enlightenment Everything
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Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.

Attract Capacity Circumstances Either
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Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.

Every EveryTime Finds Form
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At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.
Become Peak Psychotherapy Religion
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Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

Day House Inspirational Just
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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Abnormal Away Death Half
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People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.
Comfort Community Connection Crave
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Each of us has an inner room where we can visit to be cleansed of fear-based thoughts and feelings. This room, the holy of holies, is a sanctuary of light.

Each Feelings Holy Inner
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It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.

Cost Fraction Prevent Than
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Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.

Dangerous Desperate Groups Large
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The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness both precedes and determines what happens in the world.

Both Consciousness Determines Evolving
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War is just an effect, not a cause.

Cause Effect Just War
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We experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves.
Experience Extent Focus Forgive
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Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.

Dot Landscape Life Romance
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We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.

Arms Before Bow Considerations
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Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

Become Correct Events Ever
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When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

About Away Best Collapse
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One man's theology is another man's belly laugh

Another Belly Laugh Man
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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Acts Armed Back Good
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Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

Any Anything Black Cat
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I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.

Article Clothing How Indecent
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Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Children Easy Handicap Lives
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

Agreed Learned Man Me
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They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

Good Want Wanted Wednesday
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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip

Beliefs Discuss Gossip Indulgence
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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Beautiful Belong Cultivate Cultivating
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One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

Being Being Happy Fortune Generous
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority

Authority Because Believed Made
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done

Done Everything Impossible Theoretically
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Alive Anyone Gets Hardly Irony
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Anything Competent Incapable Insecurity
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

Live Long Love May
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When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

Any Church End EndResult
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

Civilization Me Politeness Sine
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Afterwards Ashamed Hands Necessarily
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Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

Basic Communist Conservative Controlled
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

Anyone Cat Considers Dealt
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

Another Assumes Condition Disease
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Never insult anyone by accident.

Accident Anyone Insult Never
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity

Human Never NeverUnderestimate Power
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.

About Does Long Machinery
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To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

About Blunder Dull Fantasy
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