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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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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Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.
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