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For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.

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...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.

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To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.

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You're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe...

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In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates.

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Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

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A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

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A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.

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This is what Zen means by being detached—not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked, and through whom the experiences of the world pass like the reflections of birds flying over water.

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...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

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How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead?

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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

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Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy. ... I am absolutely amazed to discover myself on this rock ball rotating around a spherical fire. It's a very odd situation. And the more I look at things I cannot get rid of the feeling that existence is quite weird.

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Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

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

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Nirvana is where you are, provided you don't object to it.

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But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

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Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.

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Think about a piece of music - some great symphony - we don't expect it to get better as it develops, or that its whole purpose is to reach the final crescendo. The joy is found in listening to the music in each moment.

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