I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.
("The Power of Myth")
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Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
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If you assume these 17,000 guys go away and never come back, it'd make a difference. But if they come back in two weeks rather than one week, I don't see it making a difference. They don't even have a strike fund. I'm a long way from getting worried.
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God is Within You You yourself are the creator. If you find that place within you from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.
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God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah'
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