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“In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions.”

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Art is the communication of ecstasy.

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It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.

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“Suddenly I began to find a strange meaning in old fairy-tales; woods, rivers, mountains, became living beings; mysterious life filled the night; with new interests and new expectations I began to dream again of distant travels; and I remembered many extraordinary things that I had heard about old monasteries. Ideas and feelings which had long since ceased to interest me…

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The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.

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Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other.

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Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

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“The most important factor in every function is: ‘Is it under our control or not?’ So when imagination is under our control we do not even call it imagination; we call it by various names—visualization, creative thinking, inventive thinking—you can find a name for each special case. But when it comes by itself and controls us so that we are…

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Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified.

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