Ralph Cissne
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in Long Beach, California, The United States
June 30, 1950
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Ernest Hemingway, Joyce Carol Oats, Diana Wagman, Jamie Cat Callan
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The Yapana Way: Restorative Yoga Therapy & the Art of Being
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Prudence in Hollywood and Other Stories
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Will of Golf: Mastering the Mind-Body Connection
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Don't Be Shy
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Relationships for Life: How Conscious Love Transcends Crisis, Pain and Self Avoidance
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The Wisdom of Midlife: Reclaim Your Passion, Power and Purpose
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Claim to Fame: A Story of New Hollywood
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"An extremely short bit of auto fiction, a cool examination of the author's passionate love affair with a married man, a foreigner working in Paris, only designated as A. Its primary interest for me was the contrast between the tone of the writing--cl"
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“French woman are often conflicted French film clichés: resonant with foreboding darkness and overthinking, sexual innuendo and class envy. I could see it coming, but have a weakness for accents and short blond hair.”
― Prudence in Hollywood and Other Stories
― Prudence in Hollywood and Other Stories
“My brain lit up like an arcade pinball machine. Flippers flipped. Lights flashed. Bells rang. I abandoned all rational frontal lobe activity and slid willingly into a pathological puddle of misery disguised as happiness.”
― Prudence in Hollywood and Other Stories
― Prudence in Hollywood and Other Stories
“I resolved to go clean, to stop worshipping the moon, but the gravitational pull of the sacred feminine will not release me. For the women I have known Mercury, the planet that rules communications, always seemed to be in retrograde.”
― Prudence in Hollywood and Other Stories
― Prudence in Hollywood and Other Stories
“Love is the only constant, the only reality, and when you accept and understand that you will know it.”
― Relationships for Life: How Conscious Love Transcends Crisis, Pain and Self Avoidance
― Relationships for Life: How Conscious Love Transcends Crisis, Pain and Self Avoidance
“Change is superficial. Transformation is deep. It alters our perception of reality and therefore causes everything in our life to shift. Transformation is what happens when we live our life rather than analyze it.”
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“When you are conscious you have all the relationships you choose to have. When you choose to be healthy and prosperous you are clear about what your body requires and the direction your career is headed.”
― Relationships for Life: How Conscious Love Transcends Crisis, Pain and Self Avoidance
― Relationships for Life: How Conscious Love Transcends Crisis, Pain and Self Avoidance
“Middle age is not the beginning of decline, but a time to reach for the highest in our selves. Middle age is a pause to re-examine what we have done and what we will do in the future. This is the time to give birth to our power.”
― The Wisdom of Midlife: Reclaim Your Passion, Power and Purpose
― The Wisdom of Midlife: Reclaim Your Passion, Power and Purpose
“Most paths of self-correction purposely increase the effort and struggle to achieve these states or vibrations. They insist that you must ‘earn it’ or ‘handle it’ or ‘surrender to it’ or ‘get it’ when the truth is you already have immediate access to all of it.”
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