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“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.” —Joseph Campbell

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This  is  ridiculous!

“Needing certainty shackles my potential for the unexpected. Feeling ‘I don’t know’ or ‘Let’s see what happens’, allows my expanded self to provide answers and solutions that may be completely serendipitous and outrageously synchronistic. When I step into the realm of ambiguity I’m really at my most powerful. ” —Anita Moorjani

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                                       “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things,

—Aristotle

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“Woman  in  Chair”

  “Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.” —Ram Dass        

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