"You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else."

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Source : August Wilson (2006). “Gem of the Ocean”

August Wilson

“Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.”

Source : Clarence Jordan (2005). “The Substance of Faith: and Other Cotton Patch Sermons”, p.45, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“People ask me where I go to get away and I say, 'home'”
“The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.”

Source : Richard Francis Burton, John Payne, Andrew Lang, Jonathan Scott (2015). “One Thousand and One Nights - Complete Arabian Nights Collection (Delphi Classics)”, p.5890, Delphi Classics
“The final awakening is the embracing of the darkness into the light. That means embracing our humanity as well as our divinity. What we go from is being born into our humanity, sleep walking for a long time, until we awaken and start to taste our divinity. And then want to finally get free. We see as long as we grab at our divinity and push away our humanity we arenâ€™t free. If you want to be free, you canâ€™t push away anything. You have to embrace it all. Itâ€™s all God.”
“It is not necessarily impossible for human beings to fly, but it so happens that God did not give them the knowledge of how to do it. It follows, therefore, that anyone who claims that he can fly must have sought the aid of the devil. To attempt to fly is therefore sinful.”
“Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.”
“There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: fierceness on a scale only gods can summon.”
“Thereâ€™s nothing more daring than showing up, putting ourselves out there and letting ourselves be seen.”

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