To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth.

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in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen

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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

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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.

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You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.

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The simplest questions are the most difficult.

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NOTHING happens by coincidence.

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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.

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It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.

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