The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible.

William S. Burroughs

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Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.

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If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

Do not live to satisfy the expectations of others.

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Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

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