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The saddest thing to happen to a human being is to live as an ego because the ego is not programmed for happiness; it is programmed for misery, hence the suffering on the planet.
“man is the only animal who can assimilate the past. Once the past is assimilated you are free from it. You can move in freedom and you can use your past. Otherwise you will have to pass through so many experiences; your life will be wasted.”
― Freedom: The Courage to Be Yourself
― Freedom: The Courage to Be Yourself
“freedom to create, freedom to be, freedom to express, to sing your song, to dance your dance. That is the third state: creativity.”
― Freedom: The Courage to Be Yourself
― Freedom: The Courage to Be Yourself
“Remember, freedom has two aspects: first, freedom from, and second, freedom for. Many people attain only to the first kind of freedom, freedom from—free from the parents, free from the church, free from the organization, free from this and that, free from all kinds of prisons. But for what?”
― Freedom: The Courage to Be Yourself
― Freedom: The Courage to Be Yourself
“Truth is realized through three states: assimilation, independence, and creativity. Remember these three words, they are very seminal. Assimilation—that is the function of the larva.”
― Freedom: The Courage to Be Yourself
― Freedom: The Courage to Be Yourself
“The first childhood is a false childhood; the second childhood is the real childhood. That second childhood is called the stage of the child or the stage of the sage— it means the same. Unless a man becomes utterly innocent, free from past, so free that he is not even against the past.”
― Freedom: The Courage to Be Yourself
― Freedom: The Courage to Be Yourself
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