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Beliefs

Beliefs

  • Everything you and I do, we do either out of our need to avoid pain or our desire to gain pleasure.
  • It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
  • Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

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The more one seeks to rise into height and light, the more vigorously do ones roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep — into evil.

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