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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

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When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

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I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

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Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

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I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

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When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: March 26th, 1904

Died: October 31st, 1987

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