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“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”
― Abraham Maslow

“If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”
― Abraham Maslow

“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
― Abraham Maslow

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be”
― Abraham Maslow

“What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

“To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is no escape.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
― Laurence J. Peter

“We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”
― ram dass

“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
― Ram Dass

“We're all just walking each other home.”
― Ram Dass

“Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.”
― ram dass

“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.”
― ram dass

“Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.”
― Ram Dass

“What's the n-never-fail universal apology?"

"'I was badly misinformed, I deeply regret the error, go fuck yourself with this bag of money.”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves