"What isn't, isn't. You can't put it together...what you have to do is experience it being together."

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“… sometime around now, the rules for living successfully on earth shifted, and an opportunity, unseen before, began to reveal itself. This opportunity is a context-a particular space, or way of being-which unexpectedly creates the possibility for a person’s life to truly make a difference. In this context, the way each of us answers the question, ‘What is my life really going to be about?’ can literally alter the course of humanity.”

“Here is where it is. Now is when it is. You are what it is.”

“The moment when you really experience that you have created yourself being whatever way you are, at that same moment you will never have to be that way again.”

“Belief in God is the single greatest barrier to God in the Universe. It is almost a total barrier to the experience of God. When you think you have experienced God, you haven't. Experiencing God is experiencing God, and that is true religion.”

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