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Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.

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To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.

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What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

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The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash!

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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

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Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence.

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But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

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

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You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

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Duality is always secretly unity.

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Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

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The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

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If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise; you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are.

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

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Just what should a young man or woman know to be 'in the know'? Is there, in other words, some inside information, some special taboo, some real lowdown on life and existence that most parents and teachers either don't know or won't tell?

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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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If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.

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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

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