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“My conscious mind must have its roots and origins in the most unfathomable depths of being, yet it feels as if it lived all by itself in this tight little skull.”
“Three or four times, I have had the great death but my life is lived in the million tiny moments that make up the one dance”
“That's just the trouble, you make an effort to think about it. Concentrate entirely on your breathing, as if you had nothing else to do!”
“[A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well.”
“[W]e have endless opportunities to forget the self in planting a tree for future generations; in creating a poem, a meal, a vessel of clay;”
“Results for "What are the maintenance requirements of the human being? Life, Liberty, the pursuit of happiness and food, clothing, shelter and medical care. Keeping us confused and divided against ...”
“There's no rule in the end, but only the situation and the inclination of your mind”
“[H]ow can something cease to exist that has no solid existence in the first place?”
“The only way we can be free in each moment is to become what each moment is.”
“How can a hard and fast view of a world that is never hard and fast possibly be accurate?”
“Truth is not something to believe or disbelieve. The things we believe are always less than Truth[.]”
“[A] view of the world is nothing more than a set of beliefs, a way to freeze the world in our mind. [T]his can never match Reality, because the world isn't frozen.”
“We can only be here. We can't leave. We are always here.”
“If your idea of good opposes something else, you can be sure that [it] is not absolute or certain.”
“Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality.”
“Good and bad aren't absolutes. They are beliefs, judgements, ideas based on limited knowledge as well as on the inclinations of our minds.”
“And the question of Wester religion, Flattery said, is: What lies beyond death? But the question of the Zen master is: What lies beyond waking?”
“Good times come and go. And bad times do the same.”
“[E]ven in getting the wonderful things we long for, we tend to live in want of something more[.]”
“We have all sorts of stories about heaven and hell, about oblivion and nothingness, about 'coming back,' and so on. But they are all stories.”
