The NHNE VisionQuest Game:
Quotables Deck
By David Sunfellow & Kathleen Frankel
"The Chinese character for 'crisis' is made up of two different characters, one signifying 'danger,' and the other, 'opportunity."
Jacob Needleman
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"There is less in this than meets the eye."
Tallulah Bankhead
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"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
Will Rogers
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"The frog that does not drink up the pond in which he lives."
Buddhist Proverb
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"Action is never appropriate unless you feel positive inspiration toward it."
Abraham
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"God heals and the doctor takes the fee."
Benjamin Franklin
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"We must travel in the direction of our fear."
John Berryman
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"The story is told of a British anthropologist who undertook a field trip to India. One evening he crept through the jungle and caught sight of an old holy man dancing ecstatically in the forest. The anthropologist watched this delirious, joyful display in fascination until he couldn't contain himself. "Pardon me," he said, "but what makes you dance out here, alone in the jungle?" The holy man looked bewildered and replied, "pardon me, but what makes you think I'm alone?"
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"You may be mentally completely reconciled to his reality. You may have used your personal will to make this total surrender and you may sincerely mean it. Yet you may not have experienced the emotional reality of his sweet and loving Presence. Often man becomes impatient and then he begins to doubt, thus disrupting the plant he has sown. When the emotional experience fails to materialize for a while, it is not that he keeps you waiting. It is that your inner barriers need to give way. And that can happen only with the context of your unique, personal rhythm pattern. Remember that and do not despair. Christ is here. He hears you. He loves you. He protects you. He is deeply concerned with you, even though your senses are still too dull to perceive it. But suddenly will the time come when you will be intensely aware of this fact. You will feel his loving arms, healing arms in which you can always rest and find new sustenance for your life work."
From Pathwork Guide Lecture 258, "Personal Contact With Jesus Christ," by Eva Pierrakos
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"I will come in response to a single, unequivocal call."
A Course In Miracles, T56
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"It is the purity of purpose, the consciousness of man to let go of himself, that determines to what degree the Christ Consciousness, or even the individuality called Jesus, is contacted in time and space. Oft times it has been such as him that has appeared. Let none deny it, for if so, they deny themselves. In the greater part, however, these have not been the individual Jesus, excepting of that facsimile of him within the unconscious of those individuals receiving same..."
From a Ray Stanford Reading entitled,"Psychic Sources: Their Uses and Abuses"
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"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have faith so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.... Love never faileth: But whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away."
1st Corinthians,Chapter 13
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"I have never interviewed anyone who had a near-death experience who told me that they came back to make more money or to spend more time at their jobs away from their families... Instead, they become convinced that they need to be more loving and kind. They react to their experience by living life to its fullest. They believe their lives have a purpose, even if that purpose is obscure to them. Invariably it involves concepts such as love of family or service to others. They seem to know that the love they create while living will be reflected and radiated back to them when they die."
Melvin Morse, M.D., from "Parting Visions"
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"I'm not asking you to believe anything. I'm simply telling you what I believe. And I have no idea what the next life will be like. Whatever I saw was only from the doorway, so to speak. But it was enough to convince me totally of two things from that moment on: One, that our consciousness does not cease with physical death; that it becomes, in fact, keener and more aware than ever. And secondly, that how we spend our time on earth, the kind of relationships we build, is vastly more important than we can know."
George G. Ritchie, M.D., summarizing the essence of his famous near-death experience, and encounter with Jesus. From the book, "Return From Tomorrow"
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"Whitton has uncovered evidence that thoughtless acts are not the only things that cause individuals remorse during the life review. Under hypnosis his subjects reported that failed dreams and aspirations -- things they had hoped to accomplish during their life but had not -- also caused them pangs of sadness."
From "The Holographic Universe," By Michael Talbot
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"'It's like climbing right inside a movie of your life,' says one Near-Deather. 'Every moment from every year of your life is played back in complete sensory detail. Total, total recall. And it all happens in an instant....' During this instantaneous and panoramic remembrance NDRers reexperience all the emotions, the joys and sorrows, that accompany all of the events in their life. More than that, they feel all of the emotions of the people with whom they have interacted as well. They feel the happiness of all the individuals to whom they've been kind. If they have committed a hurtful act, they become acutely aware of the pain their victim felt as a result of their thoughtlessness. And no event seems to be too trivial to be exempt."
From "The Holographic Universe," By Michael Talbot
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The Big Questions:
Who am I?
Why am I here?
What is my fate?
Where are the cookies?
From a tee-shirt advertised in WIRELESS, the Minnesota Public Radio Catalog
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"I embraced all viewpoints. From the standpoint of the miraculous, I found truth everywhere, in all phenomena, whether trivial or momentous. Instead of finding out what is true and what is not true, I had discovered, to my delight, the joke of existence -- that any statement, any action, any belief is, in a secret way, an expression of ultimate Truth...
"Each new revelation was marvelously funny, yet not absurd. The joke was that the wildest dualities were equally valid, and equally good. Truth encompassed all particulars, and each particular revealed Truth."
From, "Reins of Wild Horses,"by Sally Clay,An Account of a Spiritual Awakening
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"In any case, what 'I believe,' and what seems to be the case, based on decades of research, consideration, meditation, study, communication, workshops, etc... is that I have tapped into the cosmic mysteries, but these are somehow mixed in and fused together with misapprehensions, delusions, half-truths and Maya. My visions as given constitute as it were a precious ore and my alchemical work is to refine this ore through successive titrations and firings."
Bob Manrodt
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"Crying for a vision, that's the beginning of all religion. The thirst for a dream from above, without this you are nothing... It is like the prophets in your Bible, like Jesus fasting in the desert, getting his visions. It's like our Sioux vision quest, the Hanblecheya. White men have forgotten this. God no longer speaks to them from a burning bush. If He did, they wouldn't believe it and call it science fiction. Your old prophets went into the desert crying for a dream and the desert gave it to them. But the white men of today have made a desert of their religion and a desert within themselves. The White Man's desert is a place without dreams or life. There nothing grows. But the spirit water is always way down there to make the desert green again."
Lame Deer
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"Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence."
From "Desiderata"
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"Speak your truth quietly and clearly and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they, too, have their story."
From "Desiderata"
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"Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexations to the spirit."
From "Desiderata"
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"If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself."
From "Desiderata"
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"Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time."
From "Desiderata"
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"Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals and everywhere life is full of heroism."
From "Desiderata"
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"Especially do not feign affection, neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass."
From "Desiderata"
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Be yourself.
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"Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth."
From "Desiderata"
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"Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune, but do not distress yourself with imaginings; many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness."
From "Desiderata"
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"Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself."
From "Desiderata"
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"You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars, you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world."
From "Desiderata"
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"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds:
Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be."
Patanjali
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"Q. Are there miraculous manifestations, such as stigmata, emanation of white light from the body, emanation of heavenly odors, or the ability to live without food, which can be looked upon as prima facie evidence of high spiritual consciousness?
"A. None of those named should be looked upon absolutely as such. Each can occur in circumstances other than the most high, and, in fact, far from it...There are, of course, the cases where true saints have evidenced each of those things mentioned. Thus, they may be a sign of sainthood, or of the indwelling of Love in an individual, but not necessarily so. There is but one evidence, and that is the fruits of the spirit. The gifts of the spirit can be duplicated purely by mind as the result of effort... Love, therefore, is the only single way that holiness may be known."
From a Ray Stanford Reading entitled, "Psychic Sources: Their Uses and Abuses"
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"The highest form of human beings. These are people who relate beautifully; who are deeply involved with others; who are unafraid of involvement; who have no protective covering against experience and feeling... they love personally and concretely, regardless of risk."
From the Pathwork Lectures of Eva Pierrakos, Creating Union , "Relationship"
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"We have no concern about sensations that you receive within the head, within the spine, within the glands, or about visions and words and pretty things which you see within. We, from within you, would seek to draw you only to The Supreme Goal of life....We are not concerned if you see a vision of one that you believe to be Jesus or of any other so-called 'Master.' These are the projections of your own unconscious and are petty symbols and tinsel that you will take and shortchange yourself, instead of going beyond these unconscious projections to an awareness of pure spirit, of the light and love, the ringing radiance of God."
From a reading by Ray Stanford entitled, "A Search For God"
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"Answers may come in various ways: Through inspiration, sudden new ideas (usually when you least expect it), new realizations of feelings, through a word someone else says or that you read somewhere. As you go on, you will recognize that these answers are the manifestation of a live process that is so profoundly meaningful and organic that nothing the intellect can think up can ever match it. You will recognize that such answers and the enlightenment that comes are pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, forming little by little a comprehensive picture. Eventually you will rely on this process as on nothing else. It is more real than anything can be in the material world. It is your own path that unfolds, and it eventually reveals the reason for your being here on this earth now, the meaning of your present incarnation."
From Pathwork Guide Lecture 194,"Meditation: Its Laws and Various Approaches," by Eva Pierrakos
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"Do you not realize that you have within yourself all wisdom, all knowledge, all understanding? You do not have to seek it without, but you do have to take time to be still and to go deep within to find it. Many souls are too lazy or feel that there is so much to be done that they have no time to be still and go into the silence. They prefer to live on someone else's wisdom and knowledge instead of receiving it direct from the Source themselves."
Eileen Caddy's Still Small Voice, as recorded in "The Findhorn Garden Book"
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"I am in love with this world... It has been home. It has been my point of outlook upon the universe. I have not bruised myself against it, nor tried to use it ignobly. I have tilled its soil, I have gathered its harvests, I have waited upon its seasons, and always have I reaped what I have sown. While I delved, I did not lose sight of the sky overhead. While I gathered its bread and meat for my body, I did not neglect to gather its bread and meat for my soul. I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings."
John Burroughs
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"A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them."
Mark Twain
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"If it doesn't grow corn, I don't want to hear about it."
Sun Bear
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"There is no birth of consciousness without pain."
Carl Jung
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"The highest perception is to feel God as Bliss welling up from within your Infinite depths. Don't yearn for visions, spiritual phenomena, or thrilling experiences. The path to the Divine is not a circus."
Yogananda
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"Keeping the main road is easy, but people love to be side-tracked."
Lao Tzu
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"Unless the Lord builds the house,they labor in vain who build it."
Psalm 127
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"Some people make things happen.Some people watch things happen.Some people wonder what happened."
Author Unknown
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"At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done. Then they begin to hope it can be done. Then they see it can be done. Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago."
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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"One blow struck at the right time is worth a thousand blows struck at the wrong time."
Chinese Proverb
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"The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Greece because they do not study the whole person."
Socrates (470-399 BC
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"That which you deny becomes the focus of your life."
John McCain
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"I went into a shamanic trance, meditating on pollution and earth changes, and had a vision of Lady Gaia. I'd been expecting a withered, consumptive hag, but the one who appeared was a beautiful dark-haired woman in the flower of youth and beauty. She perceived my surprise and gave me a sad smile. 'Michael, you humans don't understand. I'm not in trouble. YOU are in trouble...'"
Michael Harner
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"When the Tao is lost, there is goodness.
When goodness is lost, there is morality.
When morality is lost, there is ritual.
Ritual is the husk of true faith,
the beginning of chaos."
Lao Tzu
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"I thought Oz was a great Head," said Dorothy.
"And I thought Oz was a lovely Lady," said the Scarecrow.
"And I thought Oz was a terrible Beast," said the Tin Woodman.
"And I thought Oz was a Ball of Fire," exclaimed the Lion.
"No, you are all wrong," said the little man meekly. "I have been making believe."
"Making believe!" cried Dorothy. "Are you not a Great Wizard?"
"Hush, my dear," he said. "Don't speak so loud, or you will be overheard -- and I should be ruined. I'm supposed to be a Great Wizard."
L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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"It is impossible to overestimate your brother's value."
A Course In Miracles, T405
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"Q. Certain people believe that they can cut out sex and Eros and the desire for a partner and live completely for love of humanity. Do you think it is possible that man or woman can swear off this part of life?
"A. ...there is perhaps one person in ten million who may have such a task... It may be in the karma for a particular soul who is already developed this far, has gone through the true partnership experience, and comes for a specific mission. There may also be certain karmic debts which have to be paid off. In most cases -- and here I can safely generalize -- avoidance of partnership is unhealthy. It is an escape. The real reason is fear of love, fear of life experience, but the fearful renunciation is rationalized as a sacrifice...
The Pathwork Lectures of Eva Pierrakos,"The Forces Of Love, Eros, and Sexuality"
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"What constitutes a profound and meaningful relationship...
The only true criterion is how genuine you are, how open and undefended; how willing you are to feel, to involve and expose yourself and all that really matters to you. How many people do you know to whom you can express your real sorrows, needs, worries, longings, wishes?"
The Pathwork Guide Lectures of Eva Pierrakos,Creating Union, "Relationship"
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"The intimacy we're all looking for is not what we think it is, and it doesn't happen automatically. Real intimacy is bliss. Somewhere deep inside we sense that, but the price of the bliss is so high that most of us don't persevere in our search for it. That's because the sincere attempt to create healthy and intimate relationships is guaranteed to bring up everything that we've been running from for an entire lifetime--maybe more than one. To be in relationship with others, we must face all that we've been avoiding in ourselves."
Gurudev, From The Kripalu Spirit: A Journal of Consciousness
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"The most challenging, beautiful, spiritually important and growth-producing kind of relationship is that between man and woman."
From the Pathwork Lectures of Eva Pierrakos,"The Spiritual Significance of Relationship"
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"Q. I am asking whether polygamy is within the scheme of spiritual law?
"A. No, it certainly is not. And when someone thinks it may be within the scheme of spiritual development, that is a subterfuge... There is no richness in revealing oneself to many. In such cases, one either reveals the same wares all over again to new partners, or... one displays different facets of one's personality. The more partners you try to share yourself with, the less you give to each. This is inevitably so. It cannot be different."
From the Pathwork Lectures of Eva Pierrakos,"The Forces Of Love, Eros, and Sexuality"
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"New ways have to be tried... before the soul can reach wisdom and truth. The freedom to choose independently, to experience sexual and erotic pleasure, to make mistakes and learn from them, to form different and more mature relationships as part of the growing process, without condemning less mature ones, are all necessary to learn the real significance of marriage."
From the Pathwork Lectures of Eva Pierrakos,Creating Union,"The New Marriage"
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"The power of sexuality in its most ideal form can convey more fully than any other human experience what spiritual bliss, oneness, and timelessness are. In the total sexual experience you break through the confines of time and separateness to which your unlimited mind has bound you. Such an experience reminds you of your true existence in the Eternal."
From the Pathwork Lectures of Eva Pierrakos,Creating Union, "Fusion: The Spiritual Significance of Sexuality"
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"In the twenty-first century
the real frontier will not be space,
or the oceans' floors,
or telecommunications,
or genetic engineering,
or a thousand other external pursuits.
It will be human relations."
Hugh & Gayle Prather, From the book, "I Will Never Leave You"
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"Out of ignorance, humanity has long believed that sex as such is sinful. Therefore it was kept hidden and this part of the personality could not grow up... And this, in turn, has led humanity to believe that sexuality is a sin and that the truly spiritual person must abstain from it. Thus one of those oft-mentioned vicious circles came into existence.
"Because of the belief that sex was sinful, the instinct could not grow up and meld with the love force. Consequently, sex in fact is selfish and loveless, raw and animalistic. If people would realize that... the sex instinct is as natural and God-given as any other universal force... they would break this vicious circle and more human beings would let their sex drives mature and mingle with love..."
From the Pathwork Lectures of Eva Pierrakos,"The Forces Of Love, Eros, and Sexuality"
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"In former times, sexuality and spirituality were considered antithetical. It was not known that true spiritual union is a consummate result of union on all levels of being, including the physical-sexual one. It was not known that total integration and oneness must bring sexuality into alignment with spirituality. The realization of your spiritual life is possible only as a result of total unification on all these other levels, and certainly never as a result of splitting off any one part from the other. The real meaning spirituality is oneness and wholeness, and that means it must include all there is. Satisfying relationships therefore always mirror the degree of the individual's inner unification. If you cannot find union with others, then you are in disunity within yourself!"
From the Pathwork Lectures of Eva Pierrakos,"Fusion: The Spiritual Significance of Sexuality"
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"Over 99% of all creation is complete before we see any evidence of it."
Abraham
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"The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep."
Senator S.I. Hayakawa
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"We are healed of suffering only by experiencing it to the full."
Marcel Proust
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"There is no way to know before experiencing."
Dr. Robert Anthony
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"It is the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive."
C.W. Leadbetter
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"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after our own. But the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
Emerson
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"Sit down before fact as a child. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing."
Thomas Huxley
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"You see,but you do not observe."
Sherlock Holmes
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"There is no such thing as the Law of Assertion. Nothing outside of you can assert itself into your experience. Only by Law of Attraction do you receive. You are in absolute control."
Abraham
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"It isn't that they cannot see the
solution.
It is that they cannot see the problem."
G.K. Chesterton
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"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."
Brooke Shields
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"Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar."
Bradley Miller
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"There is a single magic,
a single power,
a single salvation,
and a single happiness,
and that is called 'loving.'"
Herman Hesse
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"A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quanity of brains."
Henry Wheeler Shaw
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"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
George Bernard Shaw
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"In nature there are neither rewards, or punishments -- there are consequences."
Robert Ingersoll
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"There are two ways of moving men:
Interest and fear."
Napoleon
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"The universe responds to how you feel.This is your real dialogue. Not what you say."
Abraham
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"Wherever you go... there you are."
Keith Powell
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"I don't feel we did wrong taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves."
Actor John Wayne
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"Resistance to change is likely to reach its peak when significant change is imminent."
George Leonard
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"On the Earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round."
Browning
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"He jests at scars that never felt a wound."
William Shakespeare
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"You are not here to prove you are worthy. You are here because of your powerful wanting."
Abraham
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"Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad."
Longfellow
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"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
Mark Twain
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"Shadow owes its birth to light."
Gay
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"Love comes unseen; we only see it go."
Austin Dobson
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"To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting."
Stanislaus
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"It is no time to swap horses when you are crossing the stream."
Abraham Lincoln
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"We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are."
Balzac
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"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
Helen Keller
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"The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Greece because they do not study the whole person."
Socrates (470-399 BC)
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"When health is absent,
wisdom cannot reveal itself,
art cannot become manifest,
strength cannot be exerted,
wealth is useless
and reason is powerless."
Herophilus (300 B.C.)
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"The time will come when men will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men."
Leonardo Da Vince
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"Consider these facts about cooked, frozen, canned and processed foods: They have been depleted of many vitamins; They create toxins; They drain the life force from the body; They destroy the constructive bacteria in the intestines; They poison the bloodstream, thereby feeding disease; They clog the body's lymph system; They drain the body's enzyme reserve; They overwork and clog the elimination systems; They strain the glandular system; They overwork the digestive system; They cause stress, congestion and mucus; They produce the ideal environment for parasites."
Rich Anderson, author of Cleanse and Purify Thyself
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"Illness or disease is only nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion of the body; it would surely be part of the wisdom to allow nature to remove this filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines."
Mahatma Gandhi
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"Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases."
Moliera (1622-72)
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"Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist and not to force nature. Eat with moderation... nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep."
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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"Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind, and spirit which gives the frail human its unshakable strength."
Dr. Alexis Carrel
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"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute, and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity."
Albert Einstein
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"I was not lying. I said things that later seemed to be untrue."
Richard Nixon,discussing Watertgate in a 1978 interview
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"What you are living is an absolute correlation to what you are thinking."
Abraham
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"You will see it when you believe it."
Abraham
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"Lack of anything (health, love, money, happiness, etc.) is a divergence of who you really are."
Abraham
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"I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right."
Cato
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"In ANY situation, focus on the positive and you will attract more positive events and experiences into your life."
Abraham
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"God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars."
Ovid
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"Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man that has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place."
Rabbi Ben Azai
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"Justice is the only worship.
Love is the only priest.
Ignorance is the only slavery.
Happiness is the only good.
The time to be happy is now.
The place to be happy is here.
The way to be happy is to make other people happy."
R.G. Ingersoll
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"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them, but do not let them master you."
Helen Keller
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"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."
Helen Keller
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"This is the true joy in life:
Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, and being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy."
George Bernard Shaw
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"The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of his time each day."
O.A. Battista
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"'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."
Abraham Lincoln
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"Don't squat when waiting for a bus or a person. Don't spit in public. Don't point at people with your fingers. Don't make noise. Don't laugh loudly. Don't yell or call to people from a distance. Don't pick your teeth, pick your nose, blow your nose, pick at your ears, rub your eyes or rub dirt off your skin. Don't scratch, take off your shoes, burp, stretch, or hum."
From a list of tips to travelers abroad, issued by the Chinese government, Source: Newsweek, September 13, 1993
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"If computers get too powerful,we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in."
Bradley's Bromide
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The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
Henry Kissinger
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"What do you get when you play country music backward? You get your spouse back, your dog back, your pick-up back, and you stop drinking."
Louis Saaberdre
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Dear Dad,
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Dear Son,
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Ron Dentinger
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"It is easier to fight for one's principles that to live up to them."
Alfred Adler
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
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"The first draft of anything is shit."
Ernest Hemmingway
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New York City detective:
"I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her."
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"The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.'"
Genghis Khan
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There was a man who died and found himself in a beautiful place, surrounded by every conceivable comfort. A white-jacketed man came to him and said, "You may have anything you choose -- any food, any pleasure, any kind of entertainment." The man was delighted, and for days he sampled all the delicacies and experiences of which he had dreamed on Earth. But one day he grew bored with all of it, and calling the attendant to him, he said, "I'm tired of all this. I need something to do. What kind of work can you give me? " The attendant sadly shook his head and replied, "I'm sorry, Sir. That's the one thing we can't do for you. There is no work here for you." To which the man answered, "That's a fine thing. I might as well be in hell." The attendant said softly, "Where do you think you are?"
Margaret Stevens, from the book "Stories of the Spirit, Stories of the Heart," Edited by Christina Feldman & Jack Kornfield
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"I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand."
Confucius
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A man whose axe was missing suspected his neighbor's son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief, and spoke like a thief. But the man found his axe while he was digging in the valley, and the next time he saw his neighbor's son, the boy walked, looked, and spoke like any other child.
Traditional German, from the book "Stories of the Spirit, Stories of the Heart," Edited by Christina Feldman & Jack Kornfield
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"Looks are so deceptive that people should be done up like food packages with the ingredients clearly labeled."
Helen Hudson
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"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."
Theodore Roosevelt
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"My toughest fight was with my first wife."
Mohammad Ali
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"We cannot discover new oceans until we have the courage to lose site of the shore."
Muriel Chen
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"I confess that in 1901, I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years... Ever since, I have distrusted myself and avoided all predictions."
Wilbur Wright, U.S. aviation pioneer, 1908
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"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
Marshall Ferdinand Foch, French military strategist and future World War I commander, 1911
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"The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty -- a fad."
A president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Horace Rackham (Henry Ford's lawyer) not to invest in the Ford Motor Co., 1903. Rackham ignored the advice, bought $5,000 worth of stock and sold it several years later for $12.5 million
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"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
Charles H. Duell, U.S. commissioner of patents, 1899
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"We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out."
Decca Records rejecting the Beatles, 1962
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"I have no political ambitions for myself or my children."
Joseph P. Kennedy, 1936
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"First I was dying to finish high
school and start college.
Then I was dying to finish college and start working.
Then I was dying to marry and have children.
Then I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school so I could
return to work.
Then I was dying to retire.
And now, I am dying and suddenly I realize I forgot to live."
Anonymous
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"The problem is not that there are problems.The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."
Theodore Rubin
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"The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell."
Nietzsche
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"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that,but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
Mark Twain
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"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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"They talk most who have the least to say."
Mathew Prior
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"When all else fails, manipulate the data."
From a tee-shirt advertised in Wireless, A Catalog for fans and friends of Public Radio
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"When all is said and done, there's more said than done."
From the Autumn 1978 issue of the A.L.M. Journal
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We are Microsoft.
Resistance Is Futile.
You Will Be Assimilated.
---From a Bumper Sticker
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"The first duty of love is to listen."
---Paul Tillich
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"The more naps you take, the more money you make."
---Sark, from "Succulent Wild Woman"
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"I'm not O.K. You're not O.K. And that's O.K."
---Elisabeth Kubler Ross
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"Humans aren't the only species on Earth (we just act like it)."
---From a Bumper Sticker
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Striking up a conversation with the attractive woman seated beside him on a coast-to-coast flight, a would-be Romeo asked, "What kind of man are you attracted to?"
"I've always been drawn to Native American men, she replied. "They're in harmony with nature."
"I see," said the man, nodding.
"But then, I really go for Jewish men, who put women on a pedestal, and I can rarely resist the way Southern gentlemen treat their ladies with respect."
"Please allow me to introduce myself ," said the man. "My name is Tecumseh Goldstein, but all my friends call me Bubba."
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"UFOs are real -- the Air Force doesn't exist."
---From a Bumper Sticker
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Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes.
---From a Bumper Sticker
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