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It is the vocation of each person to become unique.

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We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.

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To love is to return to a home we never left, to remember who we are.

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One of the commonest perversions of love is to limit it to the private sphere.

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To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

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Meditation, like masturbation, has until recently been considered a form of self-abuse.

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The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous - large souled.

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The neurosis of normality is a case of repetition compulsion caused by the repression of awareness.

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A prime time to catch yourself putting on your personality is in the moments between sleeping and waking.

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The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair.

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If you live out of a negative identity, … others will always be cast in the mold of the enemy against whom you must struggle.

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The female has learned by long experience to win by losing, to wield power in the passive-aggressive manner of the sadomasochist.

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Secular culture, with the aid of psychoanalysis, has continued the old Christian habit of observing the self only to criticize it.

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A society that trains us to specialize in making, doing, performing, and producing neglects to educate us in wonder and appreciation.

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It is only from the perspective of the outlaw … that we are able to see that mythically informed normality is a form of mass hypnosis.

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Within the horizon of this [western] myth, love is understood as the artificial restraining of our natural impulses toward unbridled aggression.

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Where authority represses freedom, rebellion becomes the hard work of love, which is necessary because love, freedom, and spirit are inseparable.

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To love the carnal self means to love the body-mind. I cannot abuse my body with alcohol, stress, and self-indulgence and still claim to love my self.

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To sustain love, a man and a woman must continually be marrying and divorcing, moving with, against, away from, and beyond each other, saying 'yes' and 'no'.

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In a political situation where tyranny reigns and rebellion is not tolerated, few men and women will have the luxury of going beyond the stance of the rebel.

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Hero tales suggest the price of courage is beyond the ordinary budget. They tempt us to disown the common capacity of the human spirit to transcend normality.

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The outlaw is the conscious warrior who makes use of the aggression to break down the walls, barriers, and boundaries that artificially separate and alienate.

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Overstimulation of the adrenal glands (with consequent exhaustion of the spirit) is the price of our incorporation within the male womb of the modern corporate society.

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The decision to become an individual, to allow oneself to be moved by the deepest impulses of the self rather than the social consensus, can only be made with fear and trembling.

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The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths and illusions that have misinformed us.

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Freud articulated the standard opinion when he asked with supposed seriousness, 'What does a woman want?'... Today the question that is the yeast in the social dough is, 'What do men want?

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There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?' If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.

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For the adult, all the world is a stage and the personality is the mask one wears to play the assigned role. The outlaw quietly takes a seat in the back row of the theater of the mind and watches.

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The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete relationships, persons, institutions, and places.

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A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly / to ignite the flame in his heart / to fuel the blaze in the hearth / to rekindle his ardor for the earth

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