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"We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives. As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves. The brain desiring things which the body does not want, and the body desiring things which the brain does not allow; the brain giving directions which the body will not follow, and the body giving impulses which the brain cannot"
"At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it."
"Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared"
"The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing."
"If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field."
"Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown."
"Black implies white self implies other"
"Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety."
"All I'm saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated form of minerals."
"We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy."
"And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords"
"One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is a parody of the sage who has transcended his ego. If one is paranoid, the other is metanoid."
"The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger and smaller and smaller the universe becomes in order to escape the investigation because we are the universe looking at itself."
"Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality."
"To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam. It is the same with thinking, which is really silent talking. It is not, by itself, open to the discovery of anything new, for its only novelties are simply arrangements of old words and ideas."
"It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I"."
"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention."
"...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters."
"Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver."
"However much I may be impressed by the difference between a star and the dark space around it, I must not forget that I can see the two only in relation to each other, and that this relation is inseparable."