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Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we…

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Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure…
Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.
When we love something it is of value to us, and when something is of value to us we spend time with…
The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been…
If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or…
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.
Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is…
The feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself-…
The giving up of personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, and even whole life styles...these are major forms of giving up…
It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.
I have said I have met Satan, and this is true. But it is not tangible. It no more has horns, hooves…
Often the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share the pain-to be there even…

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For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day. — Evelyn Underhill
Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect,… — Georges Bataille
The more we try and understand enlightenment the more it will elude us. And that's because enlightenment does not come from the… — Anita Moorjani
Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to… — Carl Sagan
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I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a… — Angela Davis
Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager… — M. Scott Peck
In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as… — Daniel Dennett
And so when we talk about intangible values remember that they cannot be separated from the others. The conservation of waters, forests,… — Sigurd F. Olson
It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. — Norman Maclean
Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need… — Norman Maclean
Even though the discples were not aware of it, the presence was with them while they were reviewing the scriptures together on… — Karen Armstrong

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