Eric Micha'el Leventhal Quotes - Page 2

The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.
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As a rule,I believe people shouldn't follow rules;rules should follow people.
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Synchronicity is the soul's reminder of authorship.
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You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself at your feet.
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Judge not, lest ye miss out on all the fun.
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Feeling bad is not the problem.The problem is that we feel bad about feeling bad.Once you begin to let go of feeling bad about feeling bad,and start feeling better about feeling bad,then pretty soon you'll just feel better.And then you'll feel awesome.
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The question isn't whether the world is perfect.The real question to consider is: If it were, would you still be in it?
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Either nobody's perfect,or everyone is.
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In the search for truth,what you believe matters lessthan how you believe.
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You invoke a new futurewhen you envision your pastin the light of your present.
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Everything changes as you move through three stages of awareness:first, that beliefs are the result of conditions;second, that beliefs are the cause of conditions;and third, that beliefs are themselves conditions.
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Though we may choose to view them symbolically, dreams are actually no more or less symbolic than everyday waking reality. When the images and events don't conform to our view of reality, we call them symbols. When they do, we call them facts.
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I always have my reasons, even when I don't know what they are.
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Imagination makes the worldand all the wonders in it.The seed of every dream unfurlsas you with love begin it!
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Belief is made up of the same non-substance of which we ourselves are composed. The test of any belief system, then, is the degree to which this same light is permitted to shine through.
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Change happens for youthe moment you want somethingmore than you fear it.
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The fact of your heart's enfoldment in mine is evidence enough that there is, underneath it all, some hidden order to this world.
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Quem pausa para admirar a beleza se torna tambem belo.(One who pauses to admire beauty becomes, himself, beautiful.)
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To experience what isn't, love what is.
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We free our own mindseach time we pause to wonderwhether we are free.
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In the same way that Americans now look back with horrified disbelief on the evils of slavery and the 'separate but equal' era of racial segregation, many years from now our children and grandchildren will reflect on this time in history and wonder how and why we ever chose to criminalize marijuana usage and homosexual marriage while poisoning our natural world in the name of economics.
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Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be.
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True wealth comes less from having riches than from knowing how to live richly.
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We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.
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The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.
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Each person you meetis an aspect of yourself,clamoring for love.
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