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Everything is perpetually becoming new.

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The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

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Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

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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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You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this Universe. You didn't come into this world; you came out of it. Like a wave from the ocean.

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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

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The menu is not the meal.

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When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of your mind.

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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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But we must not suffer over the suffering.

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Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would "lief" or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go.

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Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.

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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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Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence.

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To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.

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To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.

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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

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We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

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The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, light doesn't illuminate itself. It's always an endless mystery to itself.

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