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Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.

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

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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.

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We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

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I knew of a physicist at the University of Chicago who was rather crazy like some scientists, and the idea of the insolidity, the instability of the physical world impressed him so much that he used to go around in enormous padded slippers for fear he should fall through the floor.

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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

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The sound of the rain needs no translation.

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A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.

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That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality.

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The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind.

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But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

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Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

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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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A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

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No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing.

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Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen.

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Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.

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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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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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Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

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