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A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

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Black implies white self implies other

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We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality.

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The only serious side-effect of #‎ marijuana is that you might get arrested.

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There is no coming toward it or going away from it; it is, and you are it.

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If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic.

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You can't make love without art.

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We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.

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We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

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Sexual love is a troubled and problematic relationship in cultures where there is a strong sense of man's separation from nature, especially when the realm of nature is felt to be inferior or contaminated with evil.

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Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.

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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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Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

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A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

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A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.

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In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

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The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it.

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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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A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.

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Thought is a means of concealing Truth.

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