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"You don’t have to make your family perfect, just make it wonderful. - Ken Jeong"

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"Art is not a thing, it is a way. - Elbert Hubbard"

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"You suppose you are the trouble But you are the cure You suppose that you are the lock on the door But you are the key that opens it It's too bad that you want to be someone else You don't see your own face, your own beauty Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours. - Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi"

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"If we are going to frame well, our vision must provide a picture into which others can insert themselves. – Fairhurst and Sarr"

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"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. – Bob Hope"

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"Just because your pain is understandable, doesn’t mean your behavior is acceptable. - Steve Maraboli"

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"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self. – Albert Einstein"

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"In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few - Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind"

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"Love is like a fart. If you have to force it it’s probably s***. – Stephen K. Amos"

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"The world is nothing but your own magnified mind."

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"To convince an audience that an illusion is real, the magician creates a plausible diversion. - Robert Preston, in the role of Carroll Todd, Victor/Victoria, 1982"

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"I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. - George Bernhard Shaw"

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"To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. – Chuang-Tzu"

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"A storm comes and the whole tree trembles. It never goes to any saint to ask how not to tremble when a storm is passing by."

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"The basis of freedom is recognition of the unconscious; the invisible dimension not yet realized, leaving a space for the new. - Norman O. Brown"

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"The richest person is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least."

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I always think about the next generation and creating a different blueprint for them. That's my goal: to let them know there's another way.

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"What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It’s not what you see that is art; art is the gap. - Marcel Duchamp"

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"One has to pay for truth, and there is no other way to pay for it: you have to put your whole being on the altar. That is the only sacrifice that is needed."

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"Art means not knowing that the world already is, and making [one]. - Rainer Maria Rilke"

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"Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink. -  Shunryu Suzuki"

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"Recognize your godliness and then there is nothing to achieve. One has simply to start; one has to start to live. Live like a god."

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"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. - Carl Jung"

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"Let me ask you to remember some day that I have told you that the hatred of evil strengthens evil, and opposition reinforces what is opposed. This is a law of an exactitude equal with the laws of mathematics. - Ronald Fraser"

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"Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world. You are willing to share your heart with others. - Chögyam Trungpa"

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"Art allows you to imbue the truth with a sort of magic, so it can infiltrate the psyches of more people, including those who don’t believe the same things as you - Wangechi Mutu"

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"There is nothing neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so. - Shakespeare"

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"You can`t eat for eight hours a day - nor drink for eight hours a day - nor make love for eight hours a day - all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy. - William Faulkner"

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"The most essential is to know oneself, and you cannot know yourself unless you shift your whole consciousness from doing to being."

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"The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides. – Arthur Schnabel"

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"If you feel unseen, remember that once you used to believe that invisibility was a superpower."

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"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. - R. Buckminster Fuller"

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"If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well. - Rilke"

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"What we are looking for is what is looking. - Francis of Assisi"

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

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What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.

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"If one were truly aware of the value of human life, to waste it blithely on distractions and the pursuit of vulgar ambitions would be the height of confusion. - Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche"

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"No work is more worthwhile than to be a sign of divine joy and a fountain of divine love. – Andrew Harvey"

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"Examine yourself & understand who you are… Whoever does not know self, does not know anything. But, whoever knows self, has acquired the knowledge of the universe. - Jesus, Book of Thomas "

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"Darkness is not dispelled because the sun takes its place. It is the earth that turns towards the sun."

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"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Ward Beecher"

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"You can only learn that you already are what you are looking for. All learning is remembering something that is already there, merely waiting to be discovered. All learning is nothing more than the removing of debris, until what remains is a radiant inner silence. Until you realize that you yourself are the origin of peace and love. - ascribed to Socrates"

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"A man’s life is nothing but an extended trek through the detours of art to recapture the one or two moments when his heart first opened. - Albert Camus"

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Find the love you seek,

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"Remember that even if you were enlightened and highly realized you are a human being in this earthly realm after all."

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"I is someone else. - Arthur Rimbaud"

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"And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind [...]. – Romans 12:2, Bible"

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"Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. - Ralph Waldo Emerson"

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"In order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be seen — really seen. — Brené Brown"

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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead"

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"We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch. - Robert Anton Wilson"

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"The greatest gift you can give the planet is to awaken and walk in Love."

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"Sacrificing intellect beyond the pleasurable point of intelectualization as well as the emotional impulsive quality of wanting to exaggerate. - Chögyam Trungpa"

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"Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us. – Leo Bucaglia"

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"All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of the atom to vibration. I must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter. - Max Planck"

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"I and the father are one. – Jesus (John 10:30)"

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"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. – Albert Einstein"

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"Art is a meaning of communication far beyond language."

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"Even the act of peeling a potato can be a work of art if it is a conscious act. - Joseph Beuys"

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"In the gap between thoughts non-conceptual wisdom shines continuously. - Milarepa"

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"Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter. -Longchenpa"

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"I honor the One in you. When you are that, and I am that, our walls of separation cease to exist and we experience what we longed to experience."

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"It is not a matter of becoming but of Being. – Ramana Maharshi"

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"Thus the world comes to me, which I no longer seek outside, and lives in and in all things that are around me. - Clara Rilke-Westhoff"

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"Authoritarian discipline which uses reward and punishment to force obedience and compliance is toxic, dysfunctional and dangerous. - Katherine Winter-Sellery"

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"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anaïs Nin"

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"To use this human life for other than its true purpose [to achieve trivial aims ] is like filling a golden vessel with excrement. - Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche  "

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"My friends, remember this, there are neither bad herbs nor bad people. There are only bad gardeners. Mes amis, retenez ceci, il n'y a ni mauvaises herbes ni mauvais hommes. Il n'y a que de mauvais cultivateurs. – Victor Hugo"

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"In order to create we have to stand in that space between what we see in the world and what we hope for, looking squarely at rejection, at heartbreak, at war, at death. - Julie Burstein"

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"The fire of God fills the artist with holy pressure to turn the coal of matter into diamonds of art. – Alex Grey"

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"Maybe you are searching among the branches for what only appears in the roots. - Rumi"

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"Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. – Ralph Waldo Emerson"

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"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. - Picasso"

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"People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall. – Thomas Merton"

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"Most people die at 25 and aren't buried until they're 75. - Benjamin Franklin"

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"It’s here in all the pieces of my shame That now I find myself again. I yearn to belong to something, to be contained In an all-embracing mind that sees me. . . – Rainer Maria Rilke"

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"The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. - Socrates"

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"Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot. - Robert Anton Wilson, Prometheus Rising"

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"Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment. - Chögyam Trungpa"

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"We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. — T.S. Eliot"

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"Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realised. – Ramana Maharishi"

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"The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. – Maya Angelou"

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"There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth – not going all the way, and not starting. - Siddhartha Gautama Buddha"