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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

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Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known under the name of Taoism, the way of correspondence between man and the tendency or the course of natural world.

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Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown cannot be avoided, that 'I' cannot continue, and that nothing can be ultimately fixed. When a man knows this, he lives for the first time in his life. By holding his breath, he loses it. By letting go he finds it.

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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

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So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

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The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

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A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.

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At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

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The wake doesn't drive the ship

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...for since there is no real 'way' to sartori, the way you are following makes very little difference.

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To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be an empty drudgery, a mere imitation of true spirituality.

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If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

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I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution , where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment... only to vanish forever.

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Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it.

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We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

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No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

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To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.

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And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom.

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