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...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.

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A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

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Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.

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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security. On the other hand, the more we are forced to admit that we actually live in the real world, the more we feel ignorant, uncertain, and insecure about everything.

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How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead?

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The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

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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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It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

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Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.

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Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us.

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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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...for since there is no real 'way' to sartori, the way you are following makes very little difference.

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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.

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Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

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Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

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Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed

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Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.

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I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.

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