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Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

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Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.

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I am amazed that Congressmen can pass a bill imposing severe penalties on anyone who burns the American flag, whereas they are responsible for burning that for which the flag stands: the United States as a territory, as a people, and as a biological manifestation. That is an example of our perennial confusion of symbols with realities.

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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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Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are playing a rarified and lofty form of the old ego-game, and that your attainment of any height is apparent to yourself and to others only by contrast with someone else's depth or failure.

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The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing higher can it give them, and nothing further should they seek for behind it; there is the limit.

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The destination of life is this eternal moment.

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Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

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

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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

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The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?

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The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

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

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You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

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...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.

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The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

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There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees, there are no flowers. They are really one organism. And so in the same way, everything in nature depends on everything else.

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Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

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Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.

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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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