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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

— Henry Miller Henry Miller on Writing (1964)

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There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.

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Political leaders are never leaders. For leaders we have to look to the Awakeners! Lao Tse, Buddha, Socrates, Jesus, Milarepa, Gurdjiev, Krishnamurti.

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If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

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The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

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One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.

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