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It's been a long time since I...

It's been a long time since I've stood on a stage in London. Was about 14 or 15 years ago, I was 60 years old, just a kid with a crazy dream. Since then I've taken a lot of Prozac, Paxil, Wellbutrin, Effexor, Ritalin, Focalin. I've also studied deeply in the philosophies and the religions, but cheerfulness kept breaking through.

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We are awakening from the dre...

We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.

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Something I wrote quite a few...

Something I wrote quite a few years ago was, "The voices in my head, they don't care what I do, they just want to argue the matter through and through." It is a common mistake, to think you're going to go into some kind of spiritual practice and you're going to be relieved of the human burdens, from human crosses like thought, jealousy, despair - in fact, if anything, these feelings are amplified.

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I can't run no more with that...

I can't run no more with that lawless crowd while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned, they've summoned up a thundercloud and they're going to hear from me. Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.

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First of all nothing will hap...

First of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.

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Nothing can stop you from thi...

Nothing can stop you from thinking. The human mind is designed to think continually.

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Don't call yourself a secret ...

Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.

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I think that really what our ...

I think that really what our training, what our culture, our religious institutions, our educational and cultural institutions should be about is preparing the heart for that journey outside of the cage of the ribs.

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What is most original in a ma...

What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.

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Songs don’t dignify human act...

Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song.

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Well it's true, ever since I ...

Well it's true, ever since I stopped eating meat I feel a lot better among animals, I feel I can be much more honest when I pat a dog.

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Avoid the flourish. Do not be...

Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty .

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I don't trust my inner feelin...

I don't trust my inner feelings, inner feelings come and go.

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When we are touched by a song...

When we are touched by a song, it is because the artist cannot hide himself.

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I greet you from the other si...

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

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Please make me empty, if I'm ...

Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I'm not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.

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Like a bird on a wire, like a...

Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!

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I see people allowing their l...

I see people allowing their lives to diminish, to become shallow, so they can't enjoy the deep wells of experience. Maybe it's always been this way, when the heart tends to shut down. If only the heart shut down and there were no repercussions, it would be O.K., but when the heart shuts down, the whole system goes into a kind of despair that is intolerable.

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Love is the only engine of su...

Love is the only engine of survival

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You should go from place to p...

You should go from place to place recovering the poems that have been written for you to which you can affix your signature. Don't discuss these matters with anyone. Retrieve. Retrieve. When the basket is full someone will appear to whom you can present it.

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