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For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other than himself—and then trying to grasp it. But a third response is possible. Not withdrawal, not stewardship on the hypothesis of a future reward, but the fullest collaboration with the world as a harmonious system of contained conflicts—based on the realization that the only real "I" is the whole endless process.

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There are people all over the world starving and here we are trying to get pot delivered for free; we felt kind of guilty.

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God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.

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There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.

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He had no chance of beating Schmeichel from there, but it was always worth a try.

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Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.

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I would just encourage any artist to stay focused, of course keep God first, and just keep working hard. Try to outwork those who you idolize.

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Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.

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But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

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Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.

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When what you’re doing doesn’t work for 50 years, it’s time to try something new.

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I was popular at some times and not so popular at other times. But what mattered was trying to solve problems and deal with circumstances. Some of which I was able to anticipate. Some of which caught us totally by surprise.

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Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions.

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All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.

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Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it?

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Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.

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I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

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Sometimes people just feel as if we want to try something to see if we can shake things up.

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I guess my feeling is that if you’re going to make a joke, that’s fine, but you should also sort of stand behind it, you know? A joke should be more than a joke, it should be a point that you’re trying to make.

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There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

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