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“But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.”

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“The self-conscious feedback mechanism of the cortex allows us the hallucination that we are two souls in one body -a rational soul and an…

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The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clutch water in…

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The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

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If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall…

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...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.

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The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.

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Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity,…

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Everything is perpetually becoming new.

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The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to…

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“As you make more and more powerful microscopic instruments, the universe has to get smaller and smaller in order to escape the investigation. Just…

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We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the…

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A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

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