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Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

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The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not know how to adapt himself. The intellectual who tries to escape from neurosis by escaping from the facts is merely acting on the principle that “where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.

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We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

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If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.

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The anitya doctrine is, again, not quite the simple assertion that the world is impermanent, but rather that the more one grasps at the world, the more it changes.

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The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether is cowardly avoidance of a difficult job. For we have to learn the art of enjoying things BECAUSE they are impermanent.

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Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy. ... I am absolutely amazed to discover myself on this rock ball rotating around a spherical fire. It's a very odd situation. And the more I look at things I cannot get rid of the feeling that existence is quite weird.

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The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

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We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.

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

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We see what we believe rather than what we see.

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Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

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Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

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For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.

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You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

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Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence.

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... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

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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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