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So this, I believe, is the central question upon which all creative living hinges: Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?
A creative life is an amplified life. It’s a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner—continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you—is a fine art, in and of itself.
It seems to me that the less I fight my fear, the less it fights back. If I can relax, fear relaxes, too.
Recognizing that people’s reactions don’t belong to you is the only sane way to create.
The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us. . . .The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being’s difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself.
How do the survivors of terminated relationships ever endure the pain of unfinished business? From that place of meditation, I found the answer—you can finish the business yourself, from within yourself. It’s not only possible, it’s essential.
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I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent—and working at a pace so slow—that I would be able to hear myself living.
That repetition of suffering—that’s hell. Moving out of that endless repetition to a new level of understanding—there’s where you’ll find heaven.
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The resting place of the mind is the heart.
Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.
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