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The One Thing We Fear Most Is The One Thing That Is Not Possible: We Cannot Die, We Cannot Be Destroyed.
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The One Thing We Fear Most Is The One Thing That Is Not Possible: We Cannot Die, We Cannot Be Destroyed.

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There’s No Disaster That Can’t Become A Blessing, And No Blessing That Can’t Become A Disaster.
Blessed
Blessing
Opportunity
Know That Ever About You Stands The Reality Of Love, And Each Moment You Have The Power To Transform Your World By What You Have Learned.
Reality
World
Moments
How Easy It Is To Be Compassionate When It's Yourself You See In Trouble.
Trouble
Easy
Compassionate
Every Word That Judges Value Is Circular. 'good' Is 'right' Is 'proper' Is 'just' Is 'good'. But Check The Examples, And They're Not Circular At All: Every One Says 'makes Me Happy'.
Judging
Example
Checks
Live Enough Of What You've Always Dreamed Of Doing, And There's No Room Left For Feeling Bad.
Feelings
Rooms
Feeling Bad
The World Is A Dream, You Say, And It’s Lovely, Sometimes. Sunset. Clouds. Sky.” “no. The Image Is A Dream. The Beauty Is Real. Can You See The Difference?
Dream
Real
Sunset
Part Of Us Is Always The Observer, And No Matter What, It Observes. It Watches Us. It Does Not Care If We Are Happy Or Unhappy, If We Are Sick Or Well, If We Live Or Die. It’s Only Job Is To Sit There On Our Shoulder And Pass Judgment On Whether We Are Worthwhile Human Beings.
Jobs
Sick
Unhappy
We Wait All These Years To Find Someone Who Understands Us, I Thought, Someone Who Accepts Us As We Are, Someone With A Wizard's Power To Melt Stone To Sunlight, Who Can Bring Us Happiness In Spite Of Trials, Who Can Face Our Dragons In The Night, Who Can Transform Us Into The Soul We Choose To Be. Just Yesterday I Found That Magical Someone Is The Face We See In The Mirror: It's Us And Our Homemade Masks.
Night
Years
Yesterday
Ask Yourself The Secret Of Your Success. Listen To Your Answer, And Practice It.
Success
Practice
Secret
You Are Led, When You Share Your Loves, To An Enchanted Life Of Inner Happiness, Which Unsharing Others Cannot Know.
Enchanted
Share
Inner Happiness
What A Delighted Fascination It Is, To Stand Aside And Watch Our Dearest Friend Perform On Stage Without Us.
Fascination
Watches
Stage
You'd Chosen To Be An Upright Biped On The Surface Of A Small Planet Of A Minor Sun On The Edge Of A Minor Galaxy Of One Of The Multiple Trillions Of Universes. That's Ok. It Doesn't Matter What Form You Take.
Matter
Sun
Form
How Can We Resent The Life We've Created For Ourselves? Who's To Blame, Who's To Credit, But Us? Who Can Change It, Any Time We Wish, But Us?
Wish
Credit
Blame
True Enjoy Stories Never Ever Have Endings.
Stories
Enjoy
Sense Of Family Is Enormously Important To Me. In The Larger Sense, We're All Of Us Family; We're All Of Us Soulmates.
Soulmate
Important
We Don't Have Rights Until We Claim Them.
Rights
Claims
Boredom Between Two People Doesn't Come From Being Together Physically. It Comes From Being Apart Mentally And Spiritually.
Two
People
Boredom
The Highest Art Form Of All Is A Human Being In Control Of Himself And His Airplane In Flight, Urging The Spirit Of A Machine To Match His Own.
Art
Airplane
Machines
Rarely Do Members Of The Same Family Grow Up Under The Same Roof.
Family
Growing Up
Criminal Mind
We Love Action And Adventure, But We Use It To Go Out And Start Wars And Kill People.
War
Adventure
People
Every Problem In Your Life Carries A Gift Inside It.
Problem
Carrie
The Airplane Is Just A Bunch Of Sticks And Wires And Cloth, A Tool For Learning About The Sky And About What Kind Of Person I Am, When I Fly. An Airplane Stands For Freedom, For Joy, For The Power To Understand, And To Demonstrate That Understanding. Those Things Aren't Destructable.
Airplane
Sky
Joy
The Simplest Things Are Often The Truest.
Simple
Simplicity
Less Is More
We Are Each Given A Block Of Marble When We Begin A Lifetime, And The Tools To Shape It Into Sculpture... We Can Drag It Behind Us Untouched, We Can Pound It Into Gravel, We Can Shape It Into Glory.
Block
Tools
Sculpture
I Relax My Body Completely, Relax My Mind Completely, And Then Imagine Myself At A Level Where Anything Can Happen.
Spiritual
Mind
Relax
There Are Two Tests That We [writers] Have For All Of Our Writing: So What? And Who Cares? There Is An Answer To Both. The Answer To Who Cares Is That A Reader Cares, If The Writing Is Good. The Answer To So What Is That These Ideas Give Us Completely New Understanding, Change Our Sense Of Who We [people] Are And Why We're Here [on This Planet].
Writing
Ideas
Two
A Writer, Or A Beginning Writer, Is Faced By The Huge Walls Of Self-consciousness. Most People Think, "what If I Say The Wrong Thing? What If I Don't Sound Erudite And Sophisticated? I'll Be Considered A Fool." In Time, With A Lot Of Practice, You Realize That's Your Foolishness Is Your Gift.
Wall
Thinking
Self
We All Know Those Who Draw Their Boundaries Carefully And Say, "i'm Only Human. Nobody's Perfect. I Accept My Limitations." And We Know Others Who Take An Opposite View And Say, "i Can Do Anything I Choose To Do. It Is In My Power To Change The World." And Those Are The Ones Who Most Often Change The World.
Views
Opposites
Perfect
Remember Where You Came From, Where You're Going, And Why You Created This Mess You Got Yourself Into In The First Place.
Determination
Acceptance
Persistence
Compelling Reason Will Never Convince Blinding Emotion.
Compelling Reason
Emotion
Convince
She Didn't Mean To Be Sexy That Moment, But Even A Winter Nightgown Couldn't Hide That Lovely Outline. When Will I Outgrow My Simple-minded Fascination With The Form She Had Happened To Choose For Her Body? Never, I Thought
Love
Sexy
Mean
Like Most Writers, We Like To Find What We Know And Pass It Along To Anyone Who Cares. When That's Done, As Soon As We've Said The Best We Can Say, There's Nothing Else About Us That's Remotely Interesting To Anybody Else, And We Go Back Behind The Walls. We Can Be Intimate In Books, We Can Be Intimate In Talks, But Then We Need Time To Be Alone.
Wall
Book
Interesting
What Matters Is How I Use What I Know, Every Minute Of Every Day; How I Use It To Remember, In The Midst Of The Game.
What Matters
Games
Use
You Are Never Given A Wish Without Also Being Given The Power To Make It Come True. You May Have To Work For It, However.
Inspirational
Life
Cute
The Great Thing About Writing Is, If You Don't Like The World, We'll Create A Different One.
Writing
Different
World
Fail At Love, And The Other Tests Don't Matter.
Love
Tests
Matter
Heaven Isnot A Place, And It Isnot Atime.heaven Isbeing Perfect.
Time
Perfect
Heaven
A Drug For Everything Is Madness. Legal Or Not, Prescribed Or Not, Over-counter Under-counter Bought For Blood On Street-corners-every Pill Separates Us From Knowing Our Own Completion And From Being Taught By What's True.
Blood
Knowing
Drug
Mistakes - Call Them Unexpected Learning Experiences.
Mistake
Learning
Experience
A Soulmate Is Someone Who Has Locks That Fit Our Keys, And Keys To Fit Our Locks.
Soulmate
Keys
Soul Mate
Thought Plus Belief Equals Manifestation.
Belief
Plus
Manifestation
Remember Where You Came From, Where You’re Going, And Why You Created The Mess You Got Yourself Into In The First Place. You're Going To Die A Horrible Death, Remember. It's All Good Training, And You'll Enjoy It More If You Keep The Facts In Mind. Take Your Dying With Some Seriousness, However. Laughing On The Way To Your Execution Is Not Generally Understood By Less-advanced Life-forms, And They'll Call You Crazy.
Crazy
Remember Where You Came
Laughing
No Matter How Qualified You Are, You Won't Reach A Better Life Until You Imagine It.
Law Of Attraction
Matter
Imagine
Strong Beliefs Win Strong Men, And Then Make Them Stronger.
Being Strong
Believe
Winning
The First Prerequisite Of An Advanced Being Is A Sense Of Humor.
Firsts
Sense Of Humor
Prerequisites
Good And Evil Are Not What Our Parents Told Us, Not What Our Church Tells Us, Or Our Country, Not What Anybody Else Tells Us! All Of Us Decide Good And Evil For Ourselves, Automatically, By Choosing What We Want To Do!
Country
Evil
Parent
Were We, Also, Hiking Along Some Cosmic Journal Page? Were The Events About Us All Part Of A Message We Could Understand, If Only We Found The Right Perspective From Which To Read Them? Somehow, With Our Long Series Of Miracles, I Thought So.
Hiking
Long
Perspective
Wrong Turns Are As Important As Right Turns. More Important, Sometimes.
Important
Sometimes
Daring
Next To God, Love Is The Word Most Mangled In Every Language. The Highest Form Of Regard Between Two People Is Friendship, And When Love Enters, Friendship Dies.
Love
Two
People
Rebuilding Us. Isn't That What The Spirit Requires, When We Climb Over The Wreckage Of Our Lives, Sometimes, We Go On To Make Our Lives Our Own Affirmation? We Are Perfect Expressions Of Perfect Love, Here And Now. There Is No Permanent Injury.
Expression
Perfect
Rebuilding
Only A Few People Are Interested In What You Have To Say, But That Is All Right. You Don't Have To Tell The Quality Of A Master By The Size Of His Crowds.
People
Quality
Crowds
Hell Is A Place, A Time, A Consciousness, In Which There Is No Love.
Inspiration
Consciousness
Hell
We Magnetize Into Our Lives Whatever We Hold In Our Thought.
Our Thoughts
Our Lives
If We Change In Different Directions, Then We Don't Have Any Future Anyway, Do We? I Think It's Possible For Two People To Change Together, To Grow Together And Enrich Instead Of Diminish Each Other. The Sum Of One And One, If They're The Right Ones, Can Be Infinity! But So Often One Person Drags The Other Down; One Person Wants To Go Up Like A Balloon And The Other's A Dead Weight. I've Always Wondered What It Would Be Like If Both People, If A Woman And A Man Both Wanted To Go Up Like Balloons!
Change
Future
Men
Anyone Desperate Enough For Suicide... Should Be Desperate Enough To Go To Creative Extremes To Solve Problems: Elope At Midnight, Stow Away On The Boat To New Zealand And Start Over, Do What They Always Wanted To Do But Were Afraid To Try.
Suicide
Suicidal
Starting Over
Overcome Space, And All We Have Left Is Here. Overcome Time, And All We Have Left Is Now.
Space
Overcoming
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
You Teach Best What You Most Need To Learn.
Education
Wisdom
Teaching
There Is A Kind Of Silver Spiderweb That's Spun Around The World, And The Strands Of That Web Are Certain Loves And Certain Understandings. And If We Follow Those, And If We Walk Those Strands, We're Going To Meet Others At The Intersections Who Have Been Walking The Same Way Across This Web. And When We Meet, There's A Kind Of "i Know Who You Are."
Understanding
World
Way
Don't Turn Away From Possible Futures Before You're Certain You Don't Have Anything To Learn From Them.
Certain
Turns
Illusions Of Life
Dying Is Like Diving Into A Deep Lake On A Hot Day. There's The Shock Of That Sharp, Cold Change, The Pain Of It For A Second, And Then Accepting Is A Swim In Reality. But After So Many Times, Even The Shock Wears Off.
Pain
Reality
Lakes
Reputation Is What People Think You Are. Character Is Who You Really Are. Take Care Of Your Character And Your Reputation Will Take Care Of Itself. The More I Want To Get Something Done, The Less I Call It Work.
Character
Thinking
People
Civilization... Wrecks The Planet From Seafloor To Stratosphere.
Nature
Civilization
Wrecks
Don't Believe What Your Eyes Are Telling You. All They Show Is Limitation. Look With Your Understanding, Find Out What You Already Know, And You'll See The Way To Fly.
Motivational
Depression
Believe
If You Love Someone, Set Them Free. If They Come Back They're Yours; If They Don't They Never Were.
Love
Inspirational
Moving On
Life's Battles Don't Always Go To The Strongest Or Fastest; Sooner Or Later Those Who Win Are Those Who Think They Can.
Encouragement
Winning
Thinking
If Our Body Is A Perfect Expression Of Our Thought About Body, And If Our Thought About Body Is That It’s Condition Has Everything To Do With Inner Image And Nothing To Do With Time, Then We Don’t Have To Be Impatient For Being Too Young Or Frightened Of Being Too Old.
Expression
Perfect
Body
Grief Is No More Necessary When We Understand Death Than Fear Is Necessary When We Understand Flying.
Grief
Flying
Sorrow
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