Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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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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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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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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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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