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We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but what we settle for.

Alan Cohen

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In the end, we shall recognize our song and sing it well. You may feel a little warbly at the moment, but so have all the great singers. Just keep singing and you’ll find your way home.
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The only thing more important than being good is being real. Authenticity is kinder than resignation without conviction. Truth leads to good faster than good leads to truth. Ultimately truth is good, but you have to live it from the inside out.
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Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality.
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If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.
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Laughter lifts us over high ridges and lights up dark valleys in a way that makes life so much easier. It is a priceless gem, a gift of release and healing direct from Heaven.
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If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don't.
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If you desire to know where your spiritual work lies, look to your emotional pain.
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Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.
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Be kind to everyone, and don't leave yourself out of the equation.
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Because fear is insatiable, everything that is insatiable is born of fear.
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Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.
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