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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.

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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

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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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Think about a piece of music - some great symphony - we don't expect it to get better as it develops, or that its whole purpose is to reach the final crescendo. The joy is found in listening to the music in each moment.

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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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The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

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What is the next step, the practical application? —I will answer that the absolutely vital thing is to consolidate your understanding, to become capable of enjoyment, of living in the present, and of the discipline which this involves. Without this you have nothing to give.

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The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.

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We all need to go out of our minds at least once a day. When we go out of our minds we quickly come to our senses.

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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

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Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

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Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.

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What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call "here and now," and you are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing... The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around. The real deep-down you is the whole universe.

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Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.

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There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to "get culture" or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost.

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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

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