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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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A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

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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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Truly great companies are built on ideals, not just deals.

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

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To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.

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But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

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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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There is no coming toward it or going away from it; it is, and you are it.

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You can't live at all unless you can live fully now.

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The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

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So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

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The real reason why human life can be so utterly exasperating and frustrating is not because there are facts called death, pain, fear, or hunger. The madness of the thing is that when such facts are present, we circle, buzz, writhe, and whirl, trying to get the I out of the experience... Sanity, wholeness and integration lie in the realisation that we are not divided, that man and his present experience are one, and that no separate I or mind can be found .... [Life] is a dance, and when you are dancing, you are not intent on getting somewhere. The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.

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You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.

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I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

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You're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe...

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Just what should a young man or woman know to be 'in the know'? Is there, in other words, some inside information, some special taboo, some real lowdown on life and existence that most parents and teachers either don't know or won't tell?

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

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To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. 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. It is the same with thinking, which is really silent talking. It is not, by itself, open to the discovery of anything new, for its only novelties are simply arrangements of old words and ideas.

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