“We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions… this especially applies to what we used to call bad things… the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.”

—  James Redfield , book The Celestine Prophecy

Source: The Celestine Prophecy

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American author, lecturer, screenwriter and film producer 1950

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