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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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You are the universe experiencing itself.

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But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

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We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

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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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It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into the unknown. The process of awaking has begun, the discovery is underway.

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Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.

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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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What is the next step, the practical application? —I will answer that the absolutely vital thing is to consolidate your understanding, to become capable of enjoyment, of living in the present, and of the discipline which this involves. Without this you have nothing to give.

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Chaos is always losing, but never defeated

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If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

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Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.

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They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.

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If you belong to an in-group of good, or saved, or elite people, you can only know that you’re in because someone else is out. You cannot live on the right side of the tracks without there being a wrong side of the tracks, so you ought to be grateful to the outside for having the privilege of being on the inside.

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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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...for since there is no real 'way' to sartori, the way you are following makes very little difference.

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The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."

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Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.

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We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.

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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

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