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Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.
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When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.
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To justify God's ways to man.
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War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.
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How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?
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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.
