The arts can make us extraordinary. Sports make the lower self extraordinary.

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With presence, everything leads to humility.

Your only permanent characteristic is change; you must release the old for the new.

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“One of the best ways to be present is to listen. As I was listening to the music and working with self-remembering, no useful thoughts came along until and ‘I’ said, ‘It is enough to be present’.”

When you look at a flower with presence, you see a self-portrait.

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One never gets there if one is not here now.