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I learned again and again in my life, until you get your own act together, you’re not ready for Big Love. What you’re ready for is one of those codependent relationships where you desperately need a partner.
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We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.
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Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
One of the deepest purposes of all art is to marry what is with what can be.
There is light in darkness. You just have to find it.
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Finally I saw that everything had come to nothing. and gave it up. and took my old body and went out into the morning and sang.
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We already have everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.
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Every genuinely new technology has a genuinely new way of breaking—and every now and then, those malfunctions open a new door to the adjacent possible. Sometimes the way a new technology breaks is almost as interesting as the way it works.
Excessive use of external motivation can slow and even stop your journey to mastery.