Darrell Calkins Quotes

#1. The greatest tragedy in life is our inability to experience and express fascination for the people and events we love while in their presence.

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#2. It's always an excellent idea to take a good look around at nature.

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#3. The pace and number of imagined obligations is neither from earth (nature's demands) nor from heaven (Nature's callings). So, they are synthetic and separated from both. The longer and deeper one invests in this synthetic process, the more exhausted and anguished one's essential spirit becomes.

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#4. A state of grace is when everything imperfect disappears, leaving just stripped-down harmony. One is left empty, with nothing except a fluid open sensation, similar to becoming the sound from a tuning fork piercing through space.

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#5. A stone can be used for building a house, blocking a road, or killing someone. The same is true for any idea.

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#6. If you sustain your balance and intention, everything, including things unimaginable, arrive at the appropriate time and place.

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#7. Conscience exists as a reality-check for intent, but it's not intent itself. Anyone who really plays, explores and celebrates life has the right intent.

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#8. We already know way too much, but don't know what to do with it. Beneath all that is a soul searching for how to have fun, in the deepest sense of the word, and how to cause fun for others.

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#9. Now, what am I here for, again?' There's genuine humility, and courage, in that question.

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#10. Progress and accomplishment with anything and everything depend on how much quality one brings to the show. What makes for quality, if one breaks it down, is spectrum and depth of virtue.

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#11. One does not find freedom or enact responsibility by surrendering to another's conceptualization of these ideas.

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#12. This is where we can find the greatest relief and joy everyday: falling under thought, anxiety, worry and all forms of me, into stillness; losing oneself in compelling engagements that transcend ambition, strategy, self-gain and self-consciousness.

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#13. If you don't practice presence, you never learn how to have busyness facilitate accomplishment.

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#14. The divine is a mystery, so the impulse to really discover, like a child, has to be the core response to anything.

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#15. Perhaps the best we can do is to work to uphold the human virtues and qualities we most value, even in the face of everyone's cynicism, skepticism and distrust, including our own.

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#16. Sustainable serenity, joy and fulfillment demand greater spiritual virtuosity, which is only found through deeper integration of conscience into the mix of one's core intent.

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#17. The human soul is complex. So is Nature (or life, if you prefer). Creating a perfect interface between the two results in a balance that one can recognize in an individual as a state of grace.

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#18. Knowledge burnished through suffering becomes wisdom, which eventually opens into the calling to return in innocence to simple harmony.

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#19. Love has an enormous spectrum of expression and impact. At the far end, it begins to unravel and move away from subjective experience and personal preference. It becomes pure intent, something that no longer tickles our desires, but fulfills the deeper needs of each circumstance we're in.

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#20. The only resolution is to spontaneously invent an unknown, unique set of qualities and actions so as to blend perfectly with the actual requirements you're confronted with.

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#21. If you want to know what you really value, look at where and how you spend your time.

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#22. I think it's essential to construct our lives
as if it's a story we want to tell.

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#23. Luck comes when you bend to the requirements of reality.

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#24. Forgiveness is really about absolution: to set free. But if you look carefully at the dynamic, the one you're setting free is yourself.

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#25. One's soul is made up of the unity of conscience and what compels you. That is, at the core, there is already a devotional relationship between these two. We just need to realize that and give them both the freedom to do what they wish.

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#26. An initial perception or impulse has an infinite number of directions it can go.

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#27. Our greatest joys and inspirations are usually found behind our fears. The trick is just to find fun in the force of Nature, wherever it manifests.

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