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

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It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?

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The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it.

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Courage is the goal of cowards.

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There is no coming toward it or going away from it; it is, and you are it.

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To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

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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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But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies.

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We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

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One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is a parody of the sage who has transcended his ego. If one is paranoid, the other is metanoid.

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Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—-to the “conquest” of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.

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Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

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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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If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it.

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

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And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords

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Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults.

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What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.

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The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.

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