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quotes[0] = "Love is granting another the space to be the way they are and the way they aren't so they can change if they want to and they don't have to."
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quotes[1] = "The truth believed is a lie."
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quotes[2] = "When you're up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember your initial objective was to drain the swamp."
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quotes[3] = "If you keep saying it the way it really is, eventually your word is law in the Universe."
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quotes[4] = "Interesting people are interested."
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quotes[5] = "Experience is simply evidence that I am here."
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quotes[6] = "Happiness is a function of accepting what is."
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quotes[7] = "A transformed individual demands transformed relationships because only in such a context can he or she naturally express a transformed individuality."
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quotes[8] = "What I have is a place to stand. Not the right place, for I do not pretend to know what is right even for myself, let alone others, but a place I am willing to try out to see if it leaves me as a clearing where the truth can more powerfully go to work."
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quotes[9] = "What we are engaged in creating is the opportunity for people to participate in the transformation of peoples' lives and of life itself. This context of transformation is a context of freedom and opportunity, of empowerment and human joy, of contribution and of participation. Participation in this transformation is, for me, the fullest expression of being."
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quotes[10] = "Responsibility begins with the willingness to be cause in the matter of one's life. Ultimately, it is a context from which one chooses to live. Responsibility is not burden, fault, praise, blame, credit, shame or guilt. In responsibility, there is no evaluation of good or bad, right or wrong. There is simply what's so, and your stand. Being responsible starts with the willingness to deal with a situation from the view of life that you are the generator of what you do, what you have and what you are. That is not the truth. It is a place to stand. No one can make you responsible, nor can you impose responsibility on another. It is a grace you give yourself - an empowering context that leaves you with a say in the matter of life."
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quotes[11] = "You and I want our lives to matter. We want our lives to make a real difference, to be of genuine consequence in the world. We know that there is no satisfaction in merely going through the motions, even if those motions make us successful, or even if we have arranged to make those motions pleasant. We want to know we have made some impact on the world. In fact, you and I want to contribute to the quality of life. We want to make the world work."
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quotes[12] = "One creates from nothing. If you try to create from something you're just changing something. So in order to create something you first have to be able to create nothing. To make sure a person doesn't find out who he is, convince him that he can't really make anything disappear. All that's left then is to resist, resist, solve, fix, help or change things. That's trying to make something out of something."
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quotes[13] = "The way to handle a monster is to give it lots of space."
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quotes[14] = "Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements."
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quotes[15] = "There isn't anybody who shows up with tennis shoes and a tennis racquet who can't play tennis at the level of Self expression. They may not play at the level of champion but there isn't anybody who can't play at the level of Self expression."
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quotes[16] = "You can start off anywhere you like as long as where you end up is leaving everybody with more power."
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quotes[17] = "Your life and my life have turned out, and once you get that, life goes on from a position of having turned out. That's called playing the game from win."
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quotes[18] = "Heroes are ordinary men and women who dare to see and meet the call of a possibility bigger than themselves. Breakthroughs are created by such heroes, by men and women who will stand for the result while it is only a possibility - people who will act to make possibility real."
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quotes[19] = "Where are you going to go to find the opportunity for the new era when who you have been being is insufficient for your life?"
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quotes[20] = "What happened to me on the Golden Gate Bridge was I realized I knew nothing. Everything I thought I knew I only knew 'in order to'."
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quotes[21] = "Building a strategy to avoid the almost certain future binds you as much to the almost certain future as committing to it."
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quotes[22] = "I want you to shift your perspective from living your life to being an actor playing the lead role in a play called your life."
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quotes[23] = "My notion about service is that service is actually that kind of relationship in which you have a commitment to the person. Now I don't mean to the person's body or to the person's personality or to the person's stomach or to the person's almost anything. What I mean in fact is that for me what service is about is being committed to the other being, to the other person spiritually, to who the person is. Now the problem with that is that to the degree that you are in fact committed to the other person you are only as valuable as how you can deal with the other person's stuff, their evidence, their manifestation, and that's what service is all about. Service is about knowing who the other person is, and being able to tolerate giving space to their garbage. What most people do is to give space to people's quality and deal with their garbage. Actually, you should do it the other way around. Deal with who they are and give space to their garbage. Keep interacting with them as if they were God. And every time you get garbage from them, give space to the garbage and go back and interact with them as if they were God."
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quotes[24] = "People participate in this work because of the value they experience in their lives until their lives outside of their participation becomes more important to them than focusing on growth, or their lives become so demanding they don't have the time to participate. It is totally appropriate for people to stop participating at some point, and focus on getting on with their lives and interests. A number of studies on Graduates demonstrate the value they received keeps on being of value in their lives even after they stop participating, and that they continue to grow on the foundation that they created for themselves out of their participation."
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quotes[25] = "You don't have to go looking for love when it is where you come from."
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quotes[26] = "We all have relationships, and if you can complete your relationship with your parents, you can have incredible relationships, magical relationships, miraculous relationships."
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quotes[27] = "What you resist persists."
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quotes[28] = "In this conversation we discover another possibility: living in a way, now, moment to moment, that makes a difference to life. We discover that as human beings we can live in a possibility instead of in what we have inherited, that instead of just being a human being because we were born that way, we can declare the possibility of being for human beings. This is the work of transformation: bringing forth a breakthrough in the possibility of being human. What we create together is a relationship in which our work can show up as making a difference in people's lives. I welcome the unprecedented opportunity for us to work globally on that which concerns us all as human beings."
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quotes[29] = "Distinctions have a short half life, and need to be recreated from time to time."
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quotes[30] = "Mastery is not about being in an aesthetic place of love and kindness. That's just the beginning of mastery. Mastery is about having the world showing up as it is. And 'I' is just another piece in the world."
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quotes[31] = "It's much easier to ride the horse in the direction he's going."
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quotes[32] = "The one thing I'm clear about is everyone is capable of being great. Not compared to someone else. I mean great for yourself. I'm committed to you realizing you're great."
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quotes[33] = "Who you mean when you say 'I' is not you. It's just something that shows up for you."
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quotes[34] = "Mastery is when what's there is all that's there."
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quotes[35] = "I is not me. It's simply something that shows up for me. Be open to the possibility of being with this thing called 'I' so you're moved to tears by it. You can't master life until you master I."
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quotes[36] = "The pathway to having is not wanting. If you want something, you need to have a different relationship with it other than wanting it in order to have it."
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quotes[37] = "Here is where it is. Now is when it is. You are what it is. Celebrate!"
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quotes[38] = "What we want to get to is to have the aesthetic experience of love, kindness, and joy become ordinary."
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quotes[39] = "The gates to the temple of truth are guarded by two dragons: paradox and confusion."
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quotes[40] = "What I mean by 'patterned behavior' is one's habitual way of representing oneself, often thought of as 'just the way I am'."
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quotes[41] = "While no one wants to be the first to say it, who each of us is and the fundamental choices each of us makes in life seem to matter very little. Even acts of great courage and intelligence, while admirable and even inspiring, exist in sharp contrast to the apparent unworkability of the world at large. Our greatest technical achievement, walking on the moon, while galvanizing the world for a moment, did not fundamentally alter people's experience of their ability to make a difference in their lives and in the world. Sometime around now - it may have happened five years ago or fifty years ago - but sometime around now, the rules for living successfully on Earth shifted, and an opportunity, unseen before, began to reveal itself. This opportunity is a context - a particular space or paradigm, a way of being - which unexpectedly creates the possibility for a person's life to truly make a difference. In this context, the way each of us answers the question 'What is my life really going to be about?' can literally alter the course of humanity. The possibility to create the context in which people's lives really matter is undoubtedly the most profound opportunity available to anyone, ever."
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quotes[42] = "You and I go through life, and you'd be surprised how much of the time in life the question 'How can I live and have integrity at the same time?' is present. It's very difficult for people to live with integrity. Usually there seems to be a conflict between integrity and living. The fact is you give up your life when you compromise integrity."
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quotes[43] = "Quick! Get on with it! Life is almost over!"
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quotes[44] = "Power doesn't come from knowledge. What people know doesn't make them powerful. It's being present to what you're dealing with that gives you power."
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quotes[45] = "Nothing happens until someone says something."
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quotes[46] = "Our work is not a class in philosophy. It's not a theological discussion nor is it a discussion about history or anthropology or sociology. Its intention is to literally impact, like break open, like empower us in our everyday being in the world."
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quotes[47] = "Today really is a day for miracles. And it's nothing that I'm going to do. It's that I've really gotten to know you. Man, I really know you! And I am absolutely completely and totally blown away by who you are. I am so deeply and completely in love with you that it's put me into a space of ecstasy, and it's all I want to do is to share that experience with you today."
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quotes[48] = "Whatever competence I may have comes from my having trained myself to be out there with what I am dealing with instead of being in here trying to deal with what is out there."
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quotes[49] = "I do not put what I think I know from my learning and experience as a lens between me and what I am dealing with. I keep what I know, so to speak, above the space between me and what I am dealing with so that it shines some light on what I am dealing with rather than being a filter."
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quotes[50] = "How can someone who is Dorothy escape from Dorothy? You cannot do that by traveling in space and time."
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quotes[51] = "I do live in a monastery. My monastery is the whole world."
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quotes[52] = "Most people don't make any distinction between an experience and a memory of an experience. They treat them both the same - because most people are unaware of the distinction. And what's worse, they don't know that they're unaware of the distinction. That's called blindness. To not know is one thing. To not know that you don't know, that's tragic."
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quotes[53] = "In the work of transformation, the epistemology is altered from a well-conceived belief system to something other than belief, to a context in which one is sensitive to the dangers of any and all belief systems."
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quotes[54] = "I suspect all codifications, particularly my own. In presenting my own ideas, I emphasize their epistemological context. I hold them as pointers to the truth, not as the truth itself."
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quotes[55] = "You and I possess within ourselves, at every moment, under all circumstances, the power to transform the quality of our lives."
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quotes[56] = "What is it to be a human being? What's the possibility of being for human beings?"
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quotes[57] = "If you keep switching the cheese, eventually the rat lays down in front of the tunnels and dies."
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quotes[58] = "There is no " + '"the answers".'
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quotes[59] = "If you don't take it out into the world, you didn't get it in the first place."
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quotes[60] = "Transformation isn't easy. If transformation were easy, the whole world would be transformed by now."
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quotes[61] = "The use of force is the negation of power. The person you refer to when you say 'I', that person's weapon is force. Whatever you are other than the thing called 'I', that's power."
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quotes[62] = "You need to get clear the universe doesn't give a damn about what you want."
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quotes[63] = "I saw that everything was going to be alright. It was alright; it always had been alright; it always would be alright - no matter what happened. I didn't just think this: suddenly I knew it. Not only was I no longer concerned about success; I was no longer even concerned about achieving satisfaction. I was satisfied. I was no longer concerned with my reputation; I was concerned only with the truth."
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quotes[64] = "There won't be an earthquake because I say there won't be an earthquake. And if I change my mind, you'll know because you'll hear the rumble."
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quotes[65] = "As stupid as it sounds, it's true there's a sense of joy with simply being with what's there."
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quotes[66] = "Transformation shows up in my mouth."
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quotes[67] = "I want you to look out from the possibility that our work, that our relationships, that our families, that our beliefs, that our wants and don't wants have us, rather than the other way around."
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quotes[68] = "For me this is a practical matter. Instead of having the answer about God like some guy or some thing or some explanation or some anything, I have a space of possibility like an openness, like a place for God to show up in my life."
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quotes[69] = "The physical universe is my Guru."
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quotes[70] = "But that is like saying that the hole in the sand looks like the stick that you made the hole in the sand with. Holes in the sand and sticks are worlds apart. To put what happened into language would be like trying to describe a stick by telling you about the hole in the sand."
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quotes[71] = "What if love was a context, a space, a clearing in which Life shows up? What if love was a stand, a declaration? What if you were your word and you said 'I love You' to somebody?"
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quotes[72] = "It's the difference between reading a book on riding a bicycle, sitting on a bicycle and falling off about twenty or thirty times, and that moment when it all kind of clicks, and suddenly you can balance on a bicycle."
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quotes[73] = "Life is a game. In order to have a game, something has to be more important than something else. If what already is, is more important that what isn't, the game is over. So life is a game in which what isn't is more important than what is. Let the good times roll."
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quotes[74] = "Thank you for communicating. I got it totally and I love you absolutely."
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quotes[75] = "Creation is a matter of distinction."
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quotes[76] = "Talk isn't cheap: you cheapen talk."
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quotes[77] = "I'm inviting you to stand in the possibility, like a space, like an opening, like a clearing, that you don't have needs. Needs have you."
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quotes[78] = "To do nothing means to do exactly what you're doing. That's the way to do nothing. If you do what you're not doing, that's doing something. If you stop doing what you're doing, that's doing something. But doing exactly what you're doing - that's doing nothing."
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quotes[79] = "A miracle is something that validates who you are rather than diminishes who you are."
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quotes[80] = "The operating imperative of the mind is 'Everything is the same as everything else ... except not always.'."
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quotes[81] = "Always be open to being related to everyone you have been related to."
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quotes[82] = "I am committed to that there is something about which human beings are unaware, the awareness of which would transform life for human beings."
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quotes[83] = "You and I have been communicating at a coaching level, not an explanatory level. I'm not interested in explanation. It's not my field. My field is not explanation. It's generation. My field is coaching, not journalizing."
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quotes[84] = "Human beings did not have rights. You and I don't know that human beings created, from nothing, the domain of human rights. They called it up. They languaged it. They communicated it. And communication has that power. It has the power not only to represent and not only to evoke but literally to bring into being. And to know yourself ... to know your SELF ... as a context creator is to transform the quality of your life."
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quotes[85] = "The access to Life as it is lived is something called wonder. The process is to bracket what you believe and think, to put it aside, and stand in wonder of what you're dealing with as it is lived."
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quotes[86] = "Lots of people have talked about taking that step into the unknown. Taking that step into the unknown is actually a lot less courageous than taking a step from the unknown."
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quotes[87] = "All that's here for me is you."
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quotes[88] = "Here we are with nothing going on."
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quotes[89] = "The way a situation occurs for me (shows up for me) is colored and shaped by my context for that situation, and my way of being and acting are naturally necessarily correlated with (in\u2011a\u2011dance\u2011with) the way that situation occurs for me."
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quotes[90] = "You can take your word back, and what you get then is your old life back."
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quotes[91] = "Suppose you had no past. that would be an interesting place to be in."
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quotes[92] = "It's all yours now."
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quotes[93] = "Life is empty and meaningless, and it's empty and meaningless that it's empty and meaningless."
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quotes[94] = "An untransformed life is not worth living."
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quotes[95] = "Just like the front and the back of the hand, being and action are distinct yet inseparable."
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quotes[96] = "Be directed by the unanswered question. Let the unanswered question direct you."
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quotes[97] = "Health is a function of participation."
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quotes[98] = "Understanding is the booby prize."
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quotes[99] = "Without integrity nothing works."
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quotes[100] = "Keep sharing."
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quotes[101] = "If God told you exactly what it was you were to do, you would be happy doing it no matter what it was. What you're doing is what God wants you to do. Be happy."
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quotes[102] = "Today is for the championship."
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quotes[103] = "Opinions don't forward the action."
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quotes[104] = "Things are the way they are, and they aren't the way they aren't."
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quotes[105] = "Just show up."
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quotes[106] = "The occurring world includes the way in which objects, others, and you yourself occur for you in this or that situation. The occcurring world is the world you live in, the one you respond to or react to. It is this world with which your mind, body, feelings, and actions are correlated."
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quotes[107] = "The source of what people do and what they don't do is that people's actions are in a naturally, necessarily directly connected dance with the way the circumstances on which and in which they are performing occur (show up) for them."
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quotes[108] = "If you're going to write a book then write a book. If you're not then don't."
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quotes[109] = "What is is, what isn't isn't."
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quotes[110] = "The end jusitifies the means, or it doesn't."
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quotes[111] = "What you got is what you chose. To move on, choose it."
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quotes[112] = "This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical is just what's so. A master is someone who found out."
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quotes[113] = "I am committed to your commitment."
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quotes[114] = "There are only two things in the world: nothing, and semantics."
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quotes[115] = "It is ultimate ego to suppose that you can function without ego. I saw that I could let my ego be, and that when I did so, it would let me be. It would no longer impede me. Instead of my ego's running the show, I could run the show. It was a matter of my being willing to be at cause with my own ego, to hold it as something that belonged to me, not to resist or try to get rid of it, not to try to prove that I didn't have one, nor fall into it, submit to it, or let it run me. Now this was a matter, in part, of taking responsibility for Jack Rosenberg and for Werner Erhard. And yet now, for the first time, I could use that particular personality, Werner Erhard, as a means of expression, as a way to express the Self."
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quotes[116] = "It is important that you get clear for yourself that your only access to impacting life is action. The world does not care what you intend, how committed you are, how you feel, or what you think, and certainly it has no interest in what you want and don't want. Take a look at life as it is lived and see for yourself that the world only moves for you when you act."
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// Laurence - LP&A 2/2/2012