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The thought system that dominates our culture is laced with selfish values, and relinquishing those values is a lot easier said than done. The journey to a pure heart can be highly disorienting. For years we may have worked for power, money and prestige. Now all of a sudden we’ve learned that those are just the values of a dying world. We don’t know where to search for motivation anymore.

— Marianne Williamson A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles (1992)

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles (1992)

A miracle worker is an artist of the soul. There’s no higher art than living a good life.

A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles (1992)

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

We are no longer ambitious for ourselves, but are rather inspired by the vision of a healed world.

A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles (1992)

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles (1992)

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Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

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