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The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain...
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Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.

Lots of comedians have people they try to mimic. I mimic my shadow.

I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one . . . It wasn't doing what I was doing.

I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me--and I didn't hear it.

I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I say, "I think I might have written that.
 
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"At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it." - Thich Nhat Hanh

"What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present, and to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good?" - A Course in Miracles

"Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find." - Dr. Wayne Dyer

"The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance." - Buddha

"The downside of spiritual education is the buildup of the vanity of 'I know' and the devaluation of people who are 'not spiritual'. Therefore it is important as a foundation to spiritual training and education to learn how consciousness manifests as the ego and its mechanisms." - David Hawkins

"If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?" - Dogen

"It's the action, not the fruit of the action, thats important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from you action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result." - Ghandi
 
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"I can soooo relate to David. Amazing that we forget our condition. And what might that be? This one: "For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me." ~Psalm 109:22 ...........We all are frail. We stumble. We fall. We die. We return to the dust from whence we came. Surreal? Hopefully not. It's a real as the next funeral we attend. For real."

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"People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's ********. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain." ~Jim Morrison
 
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