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" People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community. "

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" Life is not a piece of tragic fiction in which, at the end of the reading, we all get up and go out for drinks. "

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" I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness. "

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" Priests, ministers and rabbis are asking where the children are going. Slowly but surely, they're seeing that people are hungry for something beyond the doctrine. It isn't that they don't want religious truth. But they want the mystical core, the heart of the religious truth. "

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" The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression. "

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" The world is a holographic universe, with every piece containing the whole. "

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" Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes. "

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" Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one. "

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" An educated child earns more later in life, knows how to keep their own children from dying, produces more food, is less likely to get AIDS, and in the case of boys, is less likely to engage in armed civil conflict. "

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" Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies. "

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" To me, drone use is a moral issue. "

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" Whether the Sikhs want to worship in Wisconsin or the Christians want to worship in Texas or the Jews want to worship in New York, we're living under the magnificent umbrella of a Constitution that says we can. "

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" The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive. "

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" Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we're often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both. "

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" People with AIDS, cancer and other illnesses need free nonmedical support services. "

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" I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time. "

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" If I just want to 'start a conversation,' I don't need to run for office. As a matter of fact, it could be argued that many people are more open to hearing you if you're not running for office. "

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" I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. "

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" Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct. "

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" Sometimes it's easier to love people when there is a healthy distance between us. "

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" Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' courageous repudiation of injustice. "

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" The basic premise of 'A Course in Miracles' is that it teaches us to relinquish thoughts based on fear and to accept instead thoughts based on love. "

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" We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms. "

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" Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity. "

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" Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts. "

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" Love is all around us all the time. Love is the ethers that we swim in. Love is the amniotic fluid of the soul. "

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" Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related. "

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" Viewing Israelis and Palestinians from a psychological perspective, they would both be seen as victims of abuse; that is how they both understandably feel, and it's how they both understandably behave. The Jewish psyche is in victimized reaction to the Holocaust, and the Palestinian psyche is in victimized reaction to the Israelis. "

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" I believe that hunger for a 'lost dimension' of experience is a natural yearning in all of us, and it doesn't go away just because we ignore it. It is evidenced among other places in the millions of children and adults who obsessively read the 'Harry Potter' books. It is said that fiction is where someone gets to tell the truth. "

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