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Duality is always secretly unity.

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You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.

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There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it.

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It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.

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No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

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What are we saying when we say now, something is holy? That means you should take a different attitude to what you are doing than if you were, for example, doing it for kicks.

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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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So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

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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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It is also in despair of being able to understand or make any productive contribution to the highly organised chaos of our politico-economic system that large numbers of people simply abandon political and social committments. They just let society be taken over by a pattern of organisation which is as self-proliferative as a weed, and whose ends and values are neither human nor instinctive but mechanical.

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Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.

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And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

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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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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such a fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself as anything less than a god? And, when you consider that this incalculably subtle organism is inseparable from the still more marvelous patterns of its environment - from the minutest electrical designs to the whole company of the galaxies - how is it conceivable that this incarnation of all eternity can be bored with being?

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

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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.

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Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

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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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I owe my solitude to other people.

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