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To the degree we can live without the things of this world, we are wealthy.
Peter McWilliams
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Peter McWilliams
Age: 50 †
Born: 1949
Born: August 5
Died: 2000
Died: June 11
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Michigan
United States
Peter A. McWilliams
Peter mcwilliams
Peter Alexander McWilliams
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Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.
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No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it. No matter what happens to you, no matter how unfair, inequitable or wrong, there's something you can take from the situation and use for your advancement.
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Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. We are not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it.
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In order to truly master the comfort zone, we must learn to love it.
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Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.
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The only difference between fear and excitement is what we label it. The two are pretty much the same physiological/emotional reaction. With fear, we put a negative spin on it: Oh no! With excitement, we give it some positive english: Oh, boy!
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Ultimately, censorship comes down to taste. What offends me may enlighten you. Do you want me deciding-based on my taste-what you should or should not be exposed to?
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You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.
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Laughter is essential to our equilibrium, to our well-being, to our aliveness. If we're not well, laughter helps us get well. If we are well, laughter helps us stay that way.
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Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.
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All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all the things you did that you think you shouldn't have done, accept them. You did (or didn't ) do them. That's reality. That's what happened. No changing the past.
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If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.
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Running from fear only strengthens fear-you are demonstrating that fear has power over you. Fear must be faced and gone through.
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