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But guilt is guilt. it doesn't go away. it can't be nullified. it can't even be fully understood, i'm certain - it's roots run too deep into private and long-standing karma. about the only thing that saves my neck when i get to feeling this way is that guilt is an imperfect form of knowledge. just because it isn't perfect doesn't mean that it can't be used. the hard thing to do is to put it to practical use, before it gets around to paralyzing you.

-J. D. Salinger

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But Guilt Is Guilt. It Doesn't Go

J. D. Salinger

But guilt is guilt. it doesn't go away. it can't be nullified. it can't even be fully understood, i'm certain - it's roots run too deep into private and long-standing karma. about the only thing that saves my neck when i get to feeling this way is that guilt is an imperfect form of knowledge. just because it isn't perfect doesn't mean that it can't be used. the hard thing to do is to put it to practical use, before it gets around to paralyzing you.

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I have made you - along with fox news has made you - think obama is something that he isn't. and it's such a shame. i have so distorted who the real obama is in your mind, that it is paralyzing our government. it is paralyzing the speaker of the house, who really, really, really, really wants to go in there and really, really work with obama, but he just can't. it's hard for people like boehner to move too far in my direction because of the misperception of me, obama says, created by fox news and rush limbaugh.

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Just because you’ve only been alive for fifteen years doesn’t mean you’re less anything except old. that’s all it means. it doesn’t mean you’re less experienced. it doesn’t mean you’re less intelligent. it doesn’t mean you’re less sensitive. it doesn’t mean you take things less seriously. it’s like, these are younger human beings, meaning don’t, because they’re only ten, start thinking that they don’t know what you’re talking about -because they do. don’t leave people out in the cold, and don’t talk down to people -don’t. it never works out.

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What brings the karmic result from the patterns of our actions is not our action alone. as we intend and then act, we create [our] karma: so another key to understanding the creation of karma is becoming aware of intention. the heart is our garden, and along with each action there is an intention that is planted like a seed. the result of the patterns of our karma is the fruit of these seeds.

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