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TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.
Tom Shadyac
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Tom Shadyac
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 11
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I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.
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As I won, I didn't feel the fruits of that. I felt the fruits when I served others, when I gave myself away. . . . I've always seen my life as an experiment. I just want to go to what works. As I felt the charity aspect in my life, the giving aspect, I felt a power and I've walked more into that.
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The bike accident caused me to start talking about spiritual truths. This accident - where I faced my own death - compelled me to talk about these truths and try to make a movie about them.
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I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.
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The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act it is simply a law.
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If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.
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You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.
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The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development its love - that one principle.
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Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.
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Love is the essential energy of the universe. It is the force that puts the stars in the firmament, and it makes the blood run through the veins.
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Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. The three keys to a spiritual life.
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I didn't want to hear the usual answers about what's wrong because I believe these are symptoms: global warming, genocide, hunger, poverty, war, environmental crisis. If we can identify the root cause, we can change our ways.
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You send a message in everything you do, Im always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there.
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I wasn't paying enough attention to what my heart was telling me. When I paid attention and got the message, I could move forward and heal.
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Theres one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law thats evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs.
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I don't have any interest in changing a system, because the system will simply get bucked back by people who haven't changed.
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We started by asking what’s wrong with the world, and we ended up discovering what’s right with it.
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Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy.
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I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.
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I believe in unity, as opposed to division.
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