Stephen Mitchell Quotes

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• Creativity, not normality, has become the paradigm of mental health.
• Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death.
• There are two kinds of women: those who marry princes and those who marry frogs. The frogs never become princes, but it is an acknowledged…
• What may appear to be proud ungrateful and headstrong fron the outside may from the inside express an unshakable integrity of character. Pride, if it…
• Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present, the deeper places…
• Love softens everything except our sense of integrity.
• But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.
• Happily ever after doesn't begin with Once upon a time: it begins with Now.
• Whatever thought grips the mind at the time of death is the one which will propel it and decide for it the nature of its…
• What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.
• When there's no way out, you just follow the way in front of you.
• True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.
• When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock.
• The physical body is acknowledged as dust, the personal drama as delusion. It is as if the world we perceive through our senses, the whole…

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