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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

by Julia Cameron

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“We do not see the world as it is. We see it as we are.”
― Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

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“Love has never been a popular movement. And no one's ever wanted, really, to be free. The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people. Otherwise, of course, you can despair. Walk down the street of any city, any afternoon, and look around you. What you've got to remember is what you're looking at is also you. Everyone you're looking at is also you. You could be that person. You could be that monster, you could be that cop. And you have to decide, in yourself, not to be.”
― James Baldwin

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“Who or what is reading these words? What is noticing your reactions to them? Your mind may answer, “I am.” Who is this “I”? What is your experience in this moment? What is your experience of “I” without the mind’s judgments, memories, or comments about it? What is aware of that experience? Do you at any point come up with “I don’t know?” What is here experientially when you allow yourself not to “know”? Do you actually find an “ego” when you go to look for it?”
― John J. Prendergast, Listening from the Heart of Silence (Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy

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“Of the plant of birth and death, the seed is Darkness, the sprout is the thought that body is Self, the shoot is rage, the sap is deeds, the body is the stem, the life-breaths are the branches, the tops are the bodily powers, sensuous things are the flowers, sorrow is the fruit, born of varied deeds and manifold; and the Life is the bird that eats the fruit.”
― Adi Shankaracharya, The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and other writings of Sankaracharya

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“Our world is full of submissive activities. Shopping is submissive. You wander around buying the things the controllers have placed in front of you. Watching TV is submissive. You watch fictional lives rather than live your own life. Playing video games is submissive. You sit there shooting up the world (in virtual reality), while having no impact at all on actual reality. It’s easy to be a virtual hero, hard to be a real one. One involves no work, and the other is as hard as it gets. Video games are an avoidance of the real world. Voting is submissive too – you delegate your authority to one of the puppets of the controllers. Dominants are active, not passive. They DO. They ACT. They MOVE. They CHOOSE. They DECIDE. They are NOT CONTROLLED by the system. They are FREE. So, what are you?”
― Adam Weishaupt, Christianity: The Devil's Greatest Trick