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Creativity and love come from the same source.
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And Love
Creativity
Source
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We have a mighty task before us. The earth needs our assistance.
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Climate
Needs
Tasks
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You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself.
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Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.
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Christian
Organized
Political
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Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
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Fear
Freedom
Doubt
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The mystery of creation was always between two, in an awareness that there was always both a 'thou'and and 'I'.
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Connections
Mystery
Two
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Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.
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Change
Journey
Smile
Growth
Life Changing
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Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.
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Dream
Men
Self
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Of all man's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but love will fight no-love every inch of the way.
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Love
Men
Fighting
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There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.
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Life
Individuality
Knowing
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That is the trouble, everybody is giving everything in the world a piece of their minds. Whereas what we want is not a piece of somebody's mind, even the best mind, so much as an open heart and an open spirit.
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Giving
Heart
Mind
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The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our time in your own life and your own nature. You must really explore, as you've never explored before, what human nature is like.
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Age
Commitment
Leader
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The spirit of man is nomad, his blood bedouin, and love is the aboriginal tracker on the faded desert spoor of his lost self; and so I came to live my life not by conscious plan or prearranged design but as someone following the flight of a bird.
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Men
Love Is
Self
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The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.
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Children
Dark
Parent
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You may well be right, and disaster may well come, I had told him. But for me it will always be a point of honour to go on working to prevent disaster, if only to make certain it is the right kind of disaster life needs when it does ultimately come.
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Doe
Goes On
Needs
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On the night that the Second World war was declared, there were crowds in the street. It was a summer's night and there was a blackout. On every side you heard people crying: 'Look at the moon!' The moon had been there every minute of their lives and they'd never seen it.
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War
Moon
Summer
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In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison. I believe that in the heart of each human being there is something which I can only describe as a child of darkness who is equal and complementary to the more obvious child of light.
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Believe
Children
Heart
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Often I have found that the one thing that can save is the thing which appears most to threaten ... one has to go down into what one most fears and in that process ... comes a saving flicker of light and energy that, even if it does not produce the courage of a hero, at any rate enables a trembling mortal to take one step further.
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Hero
Light
Steps
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I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and temper his mettle without such honour. There is deep in him a sense of the heroic quest; and our modern way of life, with its emphasis on security, its distrust of the unknown and its elevation of abstract collective values has repressed the heroic impulse to a degree that may produce the most dangerous consequences.
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Men
Degrees
Hero
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I hear people everywhere saying that the trouble with our time is that we have no great leaders any more. If we look back we always had them. But to me it seems there is a very profound reason why there are no great leaders any more. It is because they are no longer needed. The message is clear. You no longer want to be led from the outside. Every man must be his own leader. He now knows enough not to follow other people. He must follow the light that's within himself, and through this light he will create a new community.
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Men
Light
Profound
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