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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.

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

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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

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We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

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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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By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.

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Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will?

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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

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I was talking to a Zen master the other day and he said, "You shall be my disciple."I looked at him and said, "Who was Buddha's teacher?" He looked at me in a very odd way for a moment and then he burst into laughter and handed me a piece of clover.

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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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Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

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The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.

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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.

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But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

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And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom.

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You can't make love without art.

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Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.

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We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible.

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Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

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