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As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself.
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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.
Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.
The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.
Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
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Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.
