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We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.


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There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.



Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.



If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.



Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.



Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!

Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!



When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.



You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.



One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.



"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.



A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.





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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.





What others say about you is irrelevant. You define who you are.

What others say about you is irrelevant. You define who you are.



So, let us push on now, and remember ourselves back to the wild soul. Let us sing her flesh back onto our bones.

So, let us push on now, and remember ourselves back to the wild soul. Let us sing her flesh back onto our bones.



You speak As one who fed on poetry.

You speak As one who fed on poetry.



All is as thinking makes it so

All is as thinking makes it so



Think of Slide as a giant media network for people to transmit information. The content that's in there now has been provided by users - it's whatever they want it to be.

Think of Slide as a giant media network for people to transmit information. The content that's in there now has been provided by users - it's whatever they want it to be.



Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.

Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.



I don't think anything predated Christians.

I don't think anything predated Christians.




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