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Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
 
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
 
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
 
The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.
 
All my writing is a reflection of my core, bits of my core. All those bits...and as they fall onto the page, the puzzle automatically gets put together -- the way a plant gets put together just by being itself and growing day-by-day. Journals are the organic side of my essence, unfolding...
 
We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are. 
 
But I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate.
 
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
 
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, wityout any other reason but because they are not common.
 
Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.
 
If you have to boil this book down to a single phrase, it would be "it's complicated".
 
The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.
 
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
 
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
 
When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote.
 
Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance.
 
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
 
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
 
Allow rather than resist what arises in the present moment-inside or out. Let it be interesting rather than good or bad.
 
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.
 
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