The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are.
- Topic: Awareness, Perception
- Location: Glacier National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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You cannot save people. You can only love them.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.
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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other persons point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
One beautiful heart is better than a thousand beautiful faces.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
