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"Tapping into these internal answers requires external knowledge. Perhaps that’s why a journey can be so transformative, because it gives you a type of self-monitored x-ray vision and the rate at which you mature and grow during fifteen months on the road is much faster than fifteen months at home."

"We tend to look outside for answers that are inside of us. My journey was precisely such a case. I had thought that the stimulation of foreign places would disentangle me from a life at home that I had found boring and joyless. There had been so much hunger inside me to escape. And now that I had done that for nearly a year and a half, I was coming right back to where I started, to little old me."

"Freedom, liberation, this must be the aim of man. But he cannot cease to be a
slave outwardly while he remains a slave inwardly. Therefore in order to become free, man must gain inner freedom."

"In the minds of most Americans, the name Hezbollah conjures images of burly Islamic thugs conducting guerrilla warfare. But I learned that Hezbollah was also responsible for building many schools, hospitals, and clinics neglected by the Lebanese government."

"Not everyone can have everything in China, not yet, but every day there are more who do. If you ignore the environment - and you can’t because the damage is utterly overwhelming - the future looks sunny for China - okay, smoggy. I had traveled thousands of miles across this vast country. And I’d still seen little, all things considered. What is here cannot all be seen by one man. Not in a lifetime."

"People moved to Alaska to find themselves, but also to get lost. I think we all wanted to know what we would look like in front of a backdrop of wilderness, who we would become once the fancy clothes and high ambitions were stripped away. For many of us, Alaska seemed the only place to figure this out."

PEOPLE MOVED TO Alaska to find themselves, but also to get lost. I think we all wanted to know what we would look like in front of a backdrop of wilderness, who we would become once the fancy clothes and high ambitions were stripped away. For many of us, Alaska seemed the only place to figure this out.

Deities are not gods but embodiments of the various facets of enlightenment that inhere within our own primordial minds. They are projections, whether they appear in peaceful loving forms or wrathful terrifying shapes. Just as we project our beliefs and paranoias upon the world during our lifetimes, so also when we are dead do the true qualities of our primordial mind appear in whatever forms we clothe them in.

"Deities are not gods but embodiments of the various facets of enlightenment that inhere within our own primordial minds. They are projections, whether they appear in peaceful loving forms or wrathful terrifying shapes. Just as we project our beliefs and paranoias upon the world during our lifetimes, so also when we are dead do the true qualities of our primordial mind appear in whatever forms we clothe them in."

"Often people disregard the affinity of their true minds for Buddha's enlightened wisdom, and, because of it, are caught by the entanglement of worldy passions, bacoming attached to the discrimination of good and evil, and then lament over their bondage and suffering."