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  1. shinichi Post author

    A loser doesn’t know what he’ll do if he loses, but talks about what he’ll do if he wins, and a winner doesn’t talk about what he’ll do if he wins, but knows what he’ll do if he loses.

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    Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

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    The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

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    A healthy person goes ‘Yes,’ ‘No,’ and ‘Whoopee!’ An unhealthy person goes ‘Yes, but,’ ‘No, but,’ and ‘No whoopee.’

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    Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.

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    Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.

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    Love is nature’s psychotherapy.

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