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“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author
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Richard Rohr photo

“Transformation is often more about UNLEARNING than learning.”

Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest

Source: Falling Upward

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Richard Rohr photo

“Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable.”

Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest

Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

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“The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.”

Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest

Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

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“Death frees from the fear of dying”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

Paulo Coelho photo
Paulo Coelho photo

“Collective madness is called sanity..”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

Paulo Coelho photo
Paulo Coelho photo

“If you rely only on experience, you’ll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems.”

I know a lot of people who feel they have an identity only when they’re talking about their problems. That way, they exist, because their problems are linked to what they judge to be their history.
Aleph (2011)

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“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”

Jean-Luc Godard (1930) French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic

Cited in: Paul Bowden, Telling It Like It Is https://books.google.nl/books?id=w8_p1eGVj8gC&pg=PA182&lpg=PA182&dq=%22Art+attracts+us+only+by+what+it+reveals+of+our+most+secret+self%22+%22jean+luc+godard%22&source=bl&ots=2zIpIhvB_1&sig=uImQSWu8ATehPk0hAhfck-ZowJc&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjwydLuqp_LAhVhDJoKHdrjACcQ6AEIUjAG#v=onepage&q=%22Art%20attracts%20us%20only%20by%20what%20it%20reveals%20of%20our%20most%20secret%20self%22%20%22jean%20luc%20godard%22&f=false, 2011, p. 182
Source: "What Is Cinema?" Les Amis du Cinéma (Paris, October 1, 1952).

Paramahansa Yogananda photo
Paramahansa Yogananda photo

“God is simple. Everything else is complex. Do not seek absolute values in the relative world of nature.”

Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship

Source: Autobiography of a Yogi:

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