Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.

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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. – Mahatma Gandhi

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. — Nelson Mandela

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Being oppressed means the absence of choices ― bell hooks

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Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it. — Nelson Mandela

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If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. – Desmond Tutu

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Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

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A people free to choose will always choose peace. – Ronald Reagan

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Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. – William Hazlitt

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