I have searched everywhere to find an answer to my question, 'Is there enlightenment?' but have never questioned the search itself. Because I have assumed that goal of enlightenment exists, I have had to search. It is the search itself which has been choking me and keeping me out of my natural state. There is no such thing as spiritual or psychological enlightenment because there is no such thing as spirit or psyche at all. I have been a damn fool all my life, searching for something which does not exist. My search is at an end.

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Chess is life in miniature. Trust is struggle. Chess is battles. — Garry Kasparov, chess grandmaster

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Believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path and that will make all the difference. — Steve Jobs

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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

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Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. — Colin Powell

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Scientific discovery may not be better than sex, but the satisfaction lasts longer.

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I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.

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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

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Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.

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Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them.

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