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“What is given to you is what is needed; what you want, requires giving up what you don't need.”

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“Were you looking at the trees just now? Don’t look at the trees man. Look at the gaps between the trees – where you wanna go. Don’t you ski? Same theory…if you think about falling when you’re on a motorcycle, you’ll really go down. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy thing.”

“Une personne en réaction n'est pas centrée, ne se trouve pas dans son cœur et ne peut pas être bien ou heureuse. Voilà pourquoi il est si utile d'être conscient des moments où tu es toi-même ou en réaction. Ce faisant, il devient possible pour toi de devenir maître de ta vie au lieu de te laisser diriger par tes peurs.”

“We are the children of the earth. So, we play and dance with singular intelligence while we learn to discern between light and dark. And then, one day, if we play conscientiously, we might find ourselves in the library of all things where we are instructed by the sun, moon and stars to wake up and to be the marriage of light and dark – unity in shimmering silver – the mirror of the cosmos.”

“To a statistician, these numbers cannot be used to confirm anything, and so are valueless, because they are chance dispersions. But on psychological grounds I have discarded the idea that we are dealing with mere chance numbers. In a total picture of natural events, it is just as important to consider the exceptions to the rule as the averages. This is the fallacy of the statistical picture: it is one sided, inasmuch as is represents only the average aspect of reality and excludes the total picture. The statistical view of the world is a mere abstraction and their food incomplete and even fallacious, particularly so when it deals with man's psychology.”

“There’s more than meets the eye with the human body. It keeps score all on its own. It remembers; it hurts; it hides memories, secrets, even from us. The body is a record keeper, even when the brain forgets what’s been recorded. Bodies, bodies, bodies. Vanishing bodies.”