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What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.

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The difference between a baby and adult is that a baby believes in everything while the adult doubts everything. Babies also only tell the truth until they learn what a lie is.

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Faith is a state of openness or trust.

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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

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There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again.

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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

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The anitya doctrine is, again, not quite the simple assertion that the world is impermanent, but rather that the more one grasps at the world, the more it changes.

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To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.

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One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is a parody of the sage who has transcended his ego. If one is paranoid, the other is metanoid.

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If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

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To the Taoist mentality, the aimless, empty life does not suggest anything depressing. On the contrary, it suggests the freedom of clouds and mountain streams, wandering nowhere, of flowers in impenetrable canyons, beautiful for no one to see, and of the ocean surf forever washing the sand, to no end.

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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 greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

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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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Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

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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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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.

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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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Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.

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