"There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived."

-- Henry David Thoreau

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“True awakening involves embracing every aspect of yourself with love and acceptance, including everything you have been denying, hiding or trying to fix. To deny these things is a judgment of them and judgment will keep you forever imprisoned within separation.”
“When I was a kid, all of the parents and grandparents came out of the Depression Era. They were all freezing bread in their freezer, they were covering their sofas with plastic, and they had plastic runners on the floor. There was a great distance between them and anything authentic.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I am a wanderer passionately in love with life.”
“One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.”

Source : Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”
“I live a very low-key life.”
“So far as I am concerned, I am not at all aware that there indeed exists a serious side as well to my cartoons drawn in an inspired mood of mischievous abandon.”
“Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what.”
“Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.”

Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.68

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