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Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.

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Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

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A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts

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To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

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Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

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The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."

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If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.

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What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

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Society is our extended mind and body.

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We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy.

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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.

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We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives. As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves. The brain desiring things which the body does not want, and the body desiring things which the brain does not allow; the brain giving directions which the body will not follow, and the body giving impulses which the brain cannot

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Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

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We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness.

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I too realize that the less I preach the more likely I am to be heard.

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The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

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The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

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To define is to limit, to set boundaries, to compare and to contrast, and for this reason, the universe, the all, seems to defy definition....Just as no one in his senses would look for the morning news in a dictionary, no one should use speaking and thinking to find out what cannot be spoken or thought.

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The 'you' who you think you are does not exist.

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In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

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