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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

“Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.”

“Religion is for people who are afraid of going to hell, spirituality is for those who’ve been there.”

“The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.”

“You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you.”

“To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.”

“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”

“When we try to help people, we have to be aware: are we doing it for them, or are we doing it because we want their approval?
If you're doing it for them, just be there with them, and for them, in a space of love.”

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

“which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?”

“It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.”

“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”

“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”

“Anybody who's ever been broken up with, or had their heart stepped on or ripped out of them; you question everything you've based your whole life on. It's like, is anything real? Cause nothing 's more real than that, and now it's gone.”

“The only reason something feels really good, it’s because you didn’t know it before. If you fall in love, it’s because it captures you and sweeps you off your feet. If you didn’t have anxiety, then you wouldn’t have passion for anything. The reason we have anxiety is because you care and you’re thoughtful.”

“What you seek is seeking you.”

“Being alive is about messing up gloriously, and I will fight for that ability to gloriously mess up because I don't believe that humans are statues or sculptures.”

“You cannot live when you are untouchable. Life is vulnerability.”

“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”