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Stillness is training for action.

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I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness.
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Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial.
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Freedom has no history.
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In the new enlightenment, the reason we are driven to become one with the life-process is not merely to experience some form of mystical oneness with everything. We strive to become one with it for the biggest reason there could be - so we can ultimately take responsibility for where it's going.
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The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.
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The mess of the human condition is that fundamental trust has not yet been realized. The true value of profound spiritual experience lies in the discovery of that fundamental trust.
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There's nothing tantric about my particular view on life.
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We're making far too big a deal out of our sexual preferences. It's just another form of narcissism, and I think it can be a big problem and a tremendous obstacle.
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Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.
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What would it be like to communicate from a part of your own self that is absolutely free from self-consciousness, that is fearless, uncorrupted, and passionately interested in the truth?.
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To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.
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Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.
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We have to be willing to give up all the injustices of the past that did exist - and that do exist right now. When we become interested in liberation, we then become interested in that which transcends time.
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It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.
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I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias
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Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.
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Whenever a human being ceases to live for themselves and begins to care about that which is greater than themselves, the personality begins to experience ecstasy, joy and spontaneous liberation. And that's found through doing, through action, through giving, through deeply embracing the human experience.
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