Alchemy
Adventure
Angels
Apocalypse
Atlantean Secrets
Aspiration
Awareness
Awakening
Bhagavad Gita
Chaos
Chestnut Bud
Cosmic Fire
Confessions
Connection
Conscience
Darkness
Devil
Dogs
Doubt
Dragon
Ducks
Ego, Self and Spirit
Enemy
Enlightenment
Evil
Faith
Fall
Food
Free Will
Freedom
Friendship and Brotherhood
God
Hell
Help
Hugo, Victor
Illusion
Immortality
Initiation
Invulnerability
Joy
Justice
Knights of the Apocalypse
Lateral Thinking
Laughter
LBs
Leadership
Life
Love
Materialism
Mathematics
Meditation
Mind and Supermind
Money
Motivation
Movement
Mysteries
Negative Energies
Opening
Oracles
Paranoia
Parents
Philadelphia
Power
Problems
Procrastination
Prophecy
Relationships
Resistance
Samskaras
Shifting
Sleep and sleepers
Socrates
Soul Mates
Sourcing
Speeding Up
Spirit
Spiritual Practice
Spots
Structure
Teaching
Theory
Time
Trees
Truth
Unconscious
USA
Venom
Verticality
Vision
Voice
Will
Work

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Alchemy

Alchemy – raising the level of fire in matter.

O Lord, the house of my soul is narrow; enlarge it, that you may enter in.

(Augustine of Hippo 354-430)

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Adventure

Adventure: anything with an unpredictable outcome.

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Angels

Take a good look around you and ask yourself, "Would an angel come down into this room?"
(Samuel Sagan)

You know you have become an angel when you can fall upwards.
(Samuel Sagan)

Angels are not as distinct as cows.
(Meister Eckhardt)

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Apocalypse

Because you are neither hot nor cold, but lukewarm; I will vomit you out of my mouth.
(Revelation 3.16)

Apocalypse: the enemy is within. The saviour is within.

(Samuel Sagan)

The choice is, either powerlessness, which will eventually lead to the abyss, or power, which may lead to the abyss or may lead to the light.

(Samuel Sagan)

Woe to he who is found asleep at judgement day.
(Samuel Sagan)

See also: Knights of the Apocalypse.

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Atlantean Secrets

One Law, one way. He who never sleeps never dies!
(Samuel Sagan)

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Aspiration

Ask, and it shall be given to you.
Seek, and you shall find.
Knock, and it shall be opened to you.
(Matthew 7.7)

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Awareness

Athought without awareness is a poisonous thought.
(Samuel Sagan)

Awareness doesn't guarantee integrity.
(Samuel Sagan)

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Awakening

Awakening is not difficult - it is either impossible, or done.
(Samuel Sagan)

Ask yourself, "what would an awakened one do in this situation? "
(Atlantean Secrets)

Awake thou that sleepest, arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light.
(St Paul to the Ephesians 5.1)

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Bhagavad Gita

In that which is night to all beings,
the enlightened one is awake.
That in which all beings are awake
is night to the enlightened one.
(Bhagavad-Gita 2.69)

The wise cry neither for the living nor for the dead.
(Bhagavad-Gita 2.11)

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Chaos

Chaos is not just an absence of structure, it is the source of all structures.
(Samuel Sagan)

There's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.
(Jimmy Buffett)

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Chestnut Bud

Catch me once, shame on you.
Catch me twice, shame on me.
(A saying of the Linux community)

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Confessions

Confessions may be good for the soul but they are bad for the reputation.
Lord Thomas Dewar

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Connection

Praying without connection is like making a phone call without dialling the number.
(Samuel Sagan)

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Conscience

Aclear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

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Cosmic Fire

Cosmic Fire - God's will
(Samuel Sagan)

Cosmic Fire - God is will
(Samuel Sagan)

See only Fire!
(Atlantean Secrets, Initiation into Thunder)

For by earth we see earth... and by fire we see fire.
(Empedocles, quoted by Aristotle in Metaphysica Book 3, Chapter 4, 1000b.)

Integrity is the ability to bear fire.
(King Vasouk, Atlantean Secrets 10.5)

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Darkness

At the darkest of the night, the light is reborn.

Those who give up at the darkest of the night never see dawn.
(Samuel Sagan)

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Devil

The first rule in dealing with the devil:
Don't!

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Dogs

Dogs bark, but the caravan passes.
(Arab proverb)

Killing the dog does not cure the bite.
(Abraham Lincoln)

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Doubt

The good thing, when there is nothing to believe, is that there is nothing to doubt either.
(Samuel Sagan)

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Dragon

Don't do, let the Dragon do!
(Atlantean Secrets)

No thoughts, just Dragon!
(Atlantean Secrets, Initiation into the Dragon)

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Ducks

If it looks like a duck, if it flies like a duck, and if it quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck.
(Saying from India)

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Ego, Self and Spirit

Self is Fire. Fire and Self are one.
(Samuel Sagan)

First people are obsessed with their parents. Then they are obsessed with their partner. Then they are obsessed with their children. But who is obsessed with the Self?
(Hindu saying, found in the Puranas)

Asked whether it was true that the Self is destroyed during nirvana, the Buddha answered:
It is not true to say that the ego is destroyed during nirvana.
It is not true to say that the ego is not destroyed during nirvana.
It is not true to say that the ego is neither destroyed nor not destroyed during nirvana.
It is not true to say that the ego is not neither destroyed nor not destroyed during nirvana.

You can't find your Self in someone else.

The more perfect something is, the more active it is. Vice versa, the more active something is, the more perfect it is.

(Spinoza, Ethics 5.40)

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Enemy

The worst thing an enemy can do to you is to make you forget that the real enemy is inside - never outside.
(Samuel Sagan)

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Enlightenment

Enlightenment is for the cosmically stubborn.
(Samuel Sagan)

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Evil

I believe that the wrong God is temporarily ruling the world and that the true God has temporarily gone under.
(Anthony Burguess)

Evil - rigidified chaos.
(Samuel Sagan)

Dark forces, like clouds, are dark only when seen from below.
(Samuel Sagan)

All that is needed for the absolute triumph of evil is for the good men to do nothing.
(Emerson)

From the point of view of the Highest Spirit, dark forces simply do not exist. From all other points of view, beware! The days are numbered, the time is coming.
(Samuel Sagan)

All that comes from heaven is not blessed.
(Samuel Sagan)

It's not because Adolf Hitler ate muesli that we should all stop eating muesli.
(Source unknown)

One of the well-known tactics of the devil: take a good intention, turn it into a disaster.
(Atlantean Secrets 14.10)

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Faith

Have Faith and fly, or suffer like eveyone else.
(Samuel Sagan)

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Fall

The Spirit is willing, but the ice cream is really good.
(Samuel Sagan)

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Food

You are what you eat.
(Hindu saying)

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Free Will

The Ego is the causality which escapes all horizontal determinisms.
(Samuel Sagan)

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Freedom

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
Samuel Adams,speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776

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Friendship and Brotherhood

When you change, friends have to change, or you have to change friends.

Brotherhood - friendship with will.
(Samuel Sagan)

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God

God: that thing which is better than sex.
(Samuel Sagan)

God is everything. Why want anything else?
(Samuel Sagan)

God, protect me from your followers.
(Oregon car sticker 2005 – during the rise and rise of the religions right)

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Hell

Any soul is worth saving, especially to a priest, but not every soul is worth buying. So you can take the offer as a compliment.
(William S. Burroughs)

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Help

Great projects, because they attract the help of great angels, can gain a momentum which makes them more achievable that small ones.

The main danger, with asking for help, is that you sometimes get it.
(Gervin, Atlantean Secrets)

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Hugo, Victor

Nothing can resist the power of an idea whose time has come.
(Victor Hugo)

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Illusion

And what if everything was illusion? What if nothing existed?
Then I would have paid far too much money for the carpet!
(Woody Allen)

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Immortality

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
(Susan Ertz)

The key to immortality is to have a life worth remembering.
(Bruce Lee)

Thou know'st 'tis common - all that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity
(Hamlet 1.2.72-73)

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Initiation

Initiation begins when consciousness is separated from life.
(Samuel Sagan)

For the Masters of Thunder, being an initiate means being able to do anything.
(Atlantean Secrets)

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Invulnerability

The invulnerable is not the one who never falls, but the one who stands up again each time he falls.
(Samuel Sagan)

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Joy

Joy is an act of will.
(Samuel Sagan)

Joy is a power.
(Samuel Sagan)

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Justice

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
(Groucho Marx)

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Knights of the Apocalypse

At the time of the Apocalypse, everything counts.

You react, you die!
(Knights of the Apocalpyse)

My strength is as the strength of ten,
because my heart is pure.
(Sir Galahad, Knight of the Round Table)

Whatever you do, be apocalyptic.
(Knights of the Apocalypse)

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Lateral Thinking

LLike the ski resort full of girls hunting for husbands and husbands hunting for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem.
Alan MacKay

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Laughter

If you can't laugh at yourself, other people will be glad to do it for you.

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LBs

Life as heroin.
(Samuel Sagan)

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Leadership

First rule of leadership: everything is your fault.

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Life

All men die. Not many live.

The two rules for success in life are:
1) Never tell everything you know.

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Love

The Dragon's desire knows no limits. Love is the only thing that can satisfy it.
(Samuel Sagan)

The human mission is to turn fire into empathy.
(Rudolf Steiner)

What's the point, if there's no heart in it?
(Samuel Sagan)

Verticality gives wings to the heart, turns custard into ardent love.
(Samuel Sagan)

The Greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to Love and be Loved in return.
Eden Ahbez

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Materialism

Materialism is, really, OMCism.
(OMC: Ordinary Mental Consciousness)
Stephen Cottee

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Meditation

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.
Blaise Pascal, 1670

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Mathematics

Tolle numerum omnibus rebus et omnia pereunt
Take numbers away from all things and all things will perish.
Isidore of Seville

No one will be able to read the great book of the Universe if he does not understand its language, which is that of mathematics.
Galileo

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Mind and Supermind

Supermind - mind with will.
(Samuel Sagan)

The great thing about not planning is that failure comes as a total surprise.
(Source unknown)

Discovering a new word in a book is always an exciting experience, especially when you have written it.
(Samuel Sagan)

Against stupidity the gods themselves fight in vain.
(Schiller)

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Money

Do you want to become the richest man in the cemetery?
(Source unknown)

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Motivation

Ask yourself, "would my present motivation and involvement in the work make myself interesting to an angel?"
(Samuel Sagan)

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Movement

God dances.
(Samuel Sagan)

In the stillness, the dance.
(Samuel Sagan)

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Mysteries

The oppsite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
(Niels Bohr)

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Negative Energies

White clothes repel negative energies, and attract tomato sauce.
(Clairvision mapping of the laws of Nature)

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Opening

And the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud, became more painful, than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

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Oracles

If you don't want silly answers, don't ask silly questions.

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Paranoia

Paranoia is just reality on a finer scale.
(Strange Days, a movie directed by Kathryn Bigelow)

The question isn't whether you are paranoid, but whether you are paranoid enough.
(Strange Days, a movie directed by Kathryn Bigelow)

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Parents

A mother is worth one hundred gurus.
(Hindu saying)

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia: brotherly love
(The meaning of the Greek word Philadelphia is brotherly love.)

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Power

If you leave the power only to power-hungry people, then the whole planet will collapse.
(Samuel Sagan)

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Problems

There is nothing more difficult to fix than a problem that doesn't exist.
(Samuel Sagan)

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Procrastination

In terms of spiritual practice, tomorrow means never.

If there is no wind, row.
(Latin proverb)

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Prophecy

Prophecy - vertical vision in spoken form.
(Samuel Sagan)

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Relationships

There is no point being with someone you can't believe in.
(Samuel Sagan)

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Resistance

The most refractory parts are to be conquered by fascination.
(Samuel Sagan)

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Samskaras

Ninety percent of your troubles come from less than ten percent of your samskaras.
(Samuel Sagan)

You don't change by solving your problems; you solve your problems by changing.
(Samuel Sagan)

Samskaras are fake resistance for baby Egos.
(Samuel Sagan)

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Service

Manava seva, madhava seva.
Serving people is serving God.
(Sanskrit saying)

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Shifting

Do not push to get out of the old; let yourself be pulled by the new.
(Samuel Sagan)

Don't worry! It's not the end of the world. It's just the end of your astral body.
(Ashok Zaman of the Clairvision Foundation)

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Simplicity

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal

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Sleep and Sleepers

Consanguineus Leti Sopor
Sleep, the kinsman of death.
(Virgil, Aeneid 6.278)

Of all needs, the need for sleep is the most irresistible.
Some can resist desire.
Some can resist hunger, and even thirst.
Some can even resist death.
But who can resist sleep?
He who never sleeps, never dies.
(Atlantean Secrets 5.22)

If there is one lesson to be learnt from the downfall of Atlantis, it is that sleepers don't get anything in the end. The message is eternal.
(Samuel Sagan)

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Socrates

The unexamined life is not worth living.
(Socrates)

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Soul Mates

Have you noticed that it is always when people begin a relationshionship that they speak of soul mates? Never when they end a relationship!
(Samuel Sagan)

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Sourcing

If you want to know about something, find its source.
(Samuel Sagan)

Cognoscere est cognoscere causas.
To know is to know the origin.
(Lucretius)

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Speeding Up

Take something very very slow and make it twice as fast. You still end up with something very slow.
(Samuel Sagan)

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Spirit

My home is my column of Spirit.
(Samuel Sagan)

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Spiritual Practice

The best of all spiritual practices is… the one that you put into practice.
(From a story related to Hindu master Ma Ananda Mai)

Beginners need complicated techniques, advanced students simple ones, masters none at all.
(Samuel Sagan)

Success from obsession.
(Samuel Sagan)

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Spots

"Out, damned spot! Out, I say!".
(Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 1 - line 39)

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Structure

The universe belongs to those that take notes.
(Samuel Sagan)

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Teaching

Being more interested in teaching than in finding is one of the classic traps of spirituality.
(Samuel Sagan)

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Theory

Theory is good, but it doesn't prevent things from existing.
(Charcot, 19tth century French neurophysiologist)

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Time

Time respects those who respect time.
(Samuel Sagan)

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity…
(Henri David Thoreau, Walden, 'Economy')

Wasted time is known by God.
(Traditional Hindu saying)

Many people have a ten-year experience which is ten times the repetition of a one-year experience.
(Alan Jones, Australian homeopath)

Broken wings mend with time.

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Trees

Unlike men, trees grow in wisdom with age.
(Atlantean Secrets 2.2)

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Truth

Truth can't wait!
(Samuel Sagan)

Truth - the leading of the Spirit.
(Rosa Droescher of the Clairvision Foundation)

Your sense for Truth is the greatest of all your assets.
(Samuel Sagan)

Neither good nor bad, neither virtue nor vice - just Truth.
(Samuel Sagan)

Truth and Fire, Fire and Truth.
(Atlantean Secrets)

Magna est Veritas, et praevalebit.
Great is Truth, and Mighty above all Things.
(Latin Proverb)

Satyam eva jayate.
Truth, and truth alone, will prevail.

(Sanskrit saying)
All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed.  Then it is violently opposed.  Finally, it is accepted as self-evident.
(Arthur Schopenhaur)

Spiritual truth is not to be measured by popularity ratings.
(Samuel Sagan)

It makes all the difference in the world whether we put Truth in the first place or the second place.
(Archbishop Richard Whateley)

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
(Max Planck, 1949, Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers)
To be is to do – Socrates
To do is to be – Jean-Paul Sartre
Do be do be do – Frank Sinatra
(Kurt Vonnegut)

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Unconscious

Through transformation, the unconscious becomes conscious.
(Samuel Sagan)

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USA

America has its grandeurs and its folies, but mostly it's the place where all our stuff is.
(Lisa Simpson)

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Venom

This surely is a great miracle and without deception - that in a venomous dragon, there should be the great medicine.
(Hermetic Museum, The book of Lambspring)

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Verticality

Holy Spirit
think through me!
(Amy Carmichael, 1868-1951)

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Vision

Where there is no vision, the people perish.
(Proverbs 29.18)

The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.
(Erwin Schr?inger)

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Voice

Voice is the thunder of the Earth.
(Atlantean Secrets)

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Will

You can be anything. You can do anything.
(Atlantean Secrets)

Actions are not performed for their fruits, nor even for their own sake. Actions are performed for the growth of the will.
(Samuel Sagan)

The will is the fire. Action is the oblation.
(Samuel Sagan)

Right Now!
(Swami Hariharananda Giri, 5th guru of the Babaji lineage in Puri, Orissa, India)

Don't think about it, do it!
(Samuel Sagan)

Ask yourself, "if it was war,would I be winning?" If the answer is yes, you know you are acting with will.
(Samuel Sagan)

Give your best, or waste your time.
(Samuel Sagan)

Few things can give more satisfaction than the completion of an act of will.
(Samuel Sagan)

When everyone wants something, it is usually not them who want it. It is Nature who wants it through them. Examples: comfort, partner, sex.
(Samuel Sagan)

Prevent accidents - start doing things on purpose.
(Source unknown)

When you have wanted something with all your being, all your heart, all your strength, and for so many months, getting it does not always bring an explosion of joy. Sometimes, the feeling is that of a powerful momentum which suddenly falls flat and leaves you emptied out.
(Atlantea Secrets 14.5)

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never give in.
(Winston Churchill)

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Word

Body of immortality, body of Word.
(Samuel Sagan)

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Work

When you do not have the time to go to the toilet, then you know that you have become too busy.
(Samuel Sagan)

When not doing anything useful, never get in the way of those who are.