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Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

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There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.

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We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

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The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond doubt, it's like the empty sky. Why drag in right and wrong?

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Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves and our world.

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And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords

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What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

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Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

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There is only this now. It does not come from anywhere; it is not going anywhere. It is not permanent, but it is not impermanent. Though moving, it is always still. When we try to catch it, it seems to run away, and yet it is always here and there is no escape from it. And when we turn around to find the self which knows this moment, we find that it has vanished like the past.

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There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.

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Someone once described “Christian Secularism” as the assumption that there is nothing at all to life except a pilgrimage between the maternity ward and the crematorium, and that it is within that span that Christian concern must be exercised because that is all there is.

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Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown.

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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

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We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

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Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will?

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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.

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Time is a social institution and not a physical reality. There is no such thing as time in the natural world - the world of stars and waters, clouds, mountains and living organisms. There is such a thing as rhythm - rhythm of tides, rhythm of biological processes... There is rhythm and there is motion. Time is a way of measuring motion.

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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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