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Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

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In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy, they call the world illusion; and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludere, to play.

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In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

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To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.

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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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We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.

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For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other than himself—and then trying to grasp it. But a third response is possible. Not withdrawal, not stewardship on the hypothesis of a future reward, but the fullest collaboration with the world as a harmonious system of contained conflicts—based on the realization that the only real "I" is the whole endless process.

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Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.

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No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

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

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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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What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

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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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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.

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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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The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

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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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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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The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

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