“Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.”
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“Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.”
“If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.”
“salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.”
“Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.”
“Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.”
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