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The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate, and though man is not connected to the universe by exactly the same physical relation as branch to tree or feet to head, he is nonetheless connected - and by physical relations of fascinating complexity.

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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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We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.

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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

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The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs.

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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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Do you see yourself as a victim of the world, or do you see yourself as the world?

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But we must not suffer over the suffering.

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

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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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You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.

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Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.

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When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there...You're looking at you.

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Buddhism ... is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or "loyal opposition" to the culture in which it is involved.

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

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We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.

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People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

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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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Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.

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