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"It is a basic tenet of all religions that there are ways of knowing beyond what we can see and hear , and that each of us has an innate ability to experience that part of us which words cannot describe. This may be an unusual letter but it is written with that perspective in mind. ... ... And by your actions you will teach about love and giving on a world stage. Very few of the things we do in life really make a difference. Even rarer is the opportunity to change human consciousness. The decision is yours."

- Written to the CEO of a large Corporation around 1991.

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"So from half a world away I am with you in remememberring John and the love we shared for him. And rejoicing finally in the knowledge that he lives on in our hearts. And we will always be loved."

- Written from Nepal to members of a AIDS volunteer group on the anniversery of a death.

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"In the end you, your partner, and this community as a whole, will experience a joy so profound that it will shake the world.

- Private letter

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"If the need to be loved is the original sin, then I will, if I have any choice in the matter, choose eternal death."

- Private email

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"You were right all those many years ago in your assessment of my feelings. Perhaps they do belong to another place and time. But still to this day those memories remain fully intact. For some reason one of the very few things protected and untouched by the malestrom that followed. But then one day the reason occured to me. Irregardless of whether those feelings of mine ever really belonged to this world, if one is to be unmercifully pounded into oblivion, then what better gift to bring there, than the pure idealism of the first blush of an unrequited love."

- Private letter

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