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“Heaven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us. This is the great realization of the Upanishads of India in the ninth Century B.C. All the gods, all the heavens, all the world, are within us. They are magnified dreams, and dreams are manifestations in image form of the energies of the body in conflict with each other. That is what myth is. Myth is a manifestation in symbolic images, in metaphorical images, of the energies of the organs of the body in conflict with each other. This organ wants this, that organ wants that. The brain is one of the organs.”
― The Power of Myth
― The Power of Myth

“Authentic happiness derives from raising the bar for yourself, not rating yourself against others.”
― Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
― Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment

“Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.”
― The Power of Myth
― The Power of Myth

“Curing the negatives does not produce the positives.”
― Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
― Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“All my adult life I have kept a distance from other people, it has been my way of coping, because I become so incredibly close to others in my thoughts and feelings of course, they only have to look away dismissively for a storm to break inside me.”
― A Man in Love
― A Man in Love

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