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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.

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For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.

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The anitya doctrine is, again, not quite the simple assertion that the world is impermanent, but rather that the more one grasps at the world, the more it changes.

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LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.

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We usually don't look. We overlook.

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Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.

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The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.

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Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.

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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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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

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Society is our extended mind and body.

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What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

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...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

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If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself. Not conceive, but feel yourself, not as a stranger in the world, not as someone here on sufferance, on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke, but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental. What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

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Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

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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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