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"He who dreams ... does not know he is dreaming... . Only when he awakens does he know he has dreamt. But there is also the great awakening (ta-chiao), and then we see that [everything] here is nothing but a great dream. Of course, the fools believe that they are already awake-what foolishness! Confucius and you, both of you, are dreams; and I, who tell you this, am also a dream."
"My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions."
"It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe"
"Although the content of consciousness depends in large measure on neuronal activity, awareness itself does not.To me, it seems more and more reasonable to suggest that the mind may be a distinct and different essence."
"Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him."
"If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second."
"What does it matter how much we do if what we're doing isn't what matters most?"
"If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'."
"The market does not know you exist. You can do nothing to influence it. You can only control your behavior."
"True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past."
"Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations."
"I beseech you to consider that God does not deal by you as you deal with him."
"When you're...stepping over a guy on the sidewalk...does it ever occur to you to think, 'Wow. Maybe our system doesn't work?'"
"The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest."
"The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway."
"The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government ... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government."
"Who is not liberal when young, does not have a heart. Who is not conservative when old, does not have a brain."
"The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are."
"Know that humiliation does not weaken you, it strengthens you. The more egoistic you are, the more humiliation you feel. When you are childlike and have a greater sense of kinship, you do not feel humiliated. When you are steeped in love with the Existence, with the Divine, nothing whatsoever can humiliate you."
"One does not become fully human painlessly."
