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But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

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And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

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If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me.

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It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play. And they look upon the whole manifestation of all the universes as a play, as a sport, as a kind of dance — lila perhaps being somewhat related to our word lilt

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Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.

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The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind.

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But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies.

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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.

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Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

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You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

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The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.

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Zen... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

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But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

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You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

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In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy, they call the world illusion; and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludere, to play.

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It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?

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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

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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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Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.

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