In order to take our lives to the next level, we must realize that the same pattern of thinking that has gotten us to where we are now will not get us to where we want to go.

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Watch your own body and mind, and the people and things surrounding you, from the deep, calm place inside of you. When you do that you'll have insights as to what you need to do in order to flow with the river of life around you.

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The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time. — Joe Girard

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We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

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There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.

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Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.

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To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring? And what would a desired outcome be? That carbon-based life is inevitable? Or that sentient primates are life's neurological pinnacle? Are answers to these questions even possible without expressing a profound bias of human sentiment? Of course humans were not around to ask these questions for 99.9999% of cosmic history. So if the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.

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Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes we do. — Joe Biden

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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

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was profound insight of a spiritual nature that could help me live my everyday life unconstrained by conflict, either with others or within myself. These. ― Sun Tzu

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