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Every worldview I chose, it seemed, edged me toward belief.

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To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives that look perfect. They try to be happy, they believe they should be happy, they are trying to like it, but if it's off course from their north star, they aren't satisfied.

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All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form.

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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.

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Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

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Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.

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Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worry the way Renee Fleming sings high Cs: Effortlessly. Loudly. At length.

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Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.

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Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic.

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I was learning to track rhinoceroses in Africa and tracked right up on an animal that really I thought was going to kill me.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: November 29th, 1962

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