“Ask yourself for a moment what is really important to you_not by anyone else's definition, but your own. Peel away all the roles that you act out every day, and you will find a being. A being that, amazingly enough, cannot be put in a box. A being that isn't good or bad—just a being. A being that wants to exist, that wants to learn, that wants to appreciate. A being that just wants to be.”

Seattle Washington, February 1994
1990s

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controversial spiritual leader 1957

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“Ask yourself for a moment what is really important to you—not by anyone else's definition but your own.”

Prem Rawat (1957) controversial spiritual leader

Seattle, Washington (1994) as reported in Maharaji, Visions International (1998)
1990s

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Neverness (1988)

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Jeanne DuPrau The People of Sparks

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