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- Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why make…
- But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a compromise with being,…
- And the worst possible thing we could know — worse than knowing of our descent from a mass of microorganisms — is that we are…
- The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight…
- As history confirms, people will change their minds about almost anything, from which god they worship to how they style their hair. But when it…
- No other life forms know they are alive, and neither do they know they will die. This is our curse alone. Without this hex upon…
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