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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
NOTHING happens by coincidence.
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that’s just ridiculous. It’s as bad as the church. My viewpoint is the exact contrary of the scientific viewpoint. I believe that if you run into somebody in the street it’s for a reason.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.