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...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.

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The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn't contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern language, is the entire complex of relationships in whose context this organism exists.

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For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it is the secret of proper timing. No rush. No dawdle. Just the sense of flowing with the course of events in the same way that you dance to music, neither trying to outpace it nor lagging behind. Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

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When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

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this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana.

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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 real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.

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...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.

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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

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As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.

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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

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

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We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

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The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.

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Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it.

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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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But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

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

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