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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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To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be an empty drudgery, a mere imitation of true spirituality.

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Your soul isn't in your body; your body is in your soul!

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

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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from a giant pine that lives for a thousand years.

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The 'you' who you think you are does not exist.

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Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known under the name of Taoism, the way of correspondence between man and the tendency or the course of natural world.

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Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy. ... I am absolutely amazed to discover myself on this rock ball rotating around a spherical fire. It's a very odd situation. And the more I look at things I cannot get rid of the feeling that existence is quite weird.

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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.

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If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.

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The mind's the standard of the man.

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

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The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond doubt, it's like the empty sky. Why drag in right and wrong?

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Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

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When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there...You're looking at you.

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The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.

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

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I am amazed that Congressmen can pass a bill imposing severe penalties on anyone who burns the American flag, whereas they are responsible for burning that for which the flag stands: the United States as a territory, as a people, and as a biological manifestation. That is an example of our perennial confusion of symbols with realities.

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The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."

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