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Darrell Calkins
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If you want to know what you really value, look at where and how you spend your time.
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Our greatest joys and inspirations are usually found behind our fears. The trick is just to find fun in the force of Nature, wherever it manifests.
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One’s soul is made up of the unity of conscience and what compels you. That is, at the core, there is already a devotional relationship between these two. We just need to realize that and give them both the freedom to do what they wish.
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One does not find freedom or enact responsibility by surrendering to another’s conceptualization of these ideas.
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If you sustain your balance and intention, everything, including things unimaginable, arrive at the appropriate time and place.
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Perhaps the best we can do is to work to uphold the human virtues and qualities we most value, even in the face of everyone’s cynicism, skepticism and distrust, including our own.
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A stone can be used for building a house, blocking a road, or killing someone. The same is true for any idea.
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Real giving, clean, humble, precise, requires at least some anonymity. You do your job, and you’re not going to be paid for it. That’s the point in a way; you were already paid for it...Greatness, if you want to shoot for that, is the ability to do this and not have resentment or any other dis-ease accumulate.
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If you ever get a single wish from a genie, wish that what you know you should do and what you really have fun doing become one and the same. Whatever grand vision you may have, for you, those you love, or all of humanity and beyond, it becomes attainable there. Indeed, when these two become one, you yourself become the genie.
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