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- But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our…
- I was talking to a Zen master the other day and he said, "You shall be my disciple."I looked at him and said, "Who was…
- 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…
- 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…
- Everybody is I, you all know you are you. And wheresoever's beings exist throughout all galaxies it doesn't any difference. You are all of them,…
- The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which…
- We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.
- For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it is the secret…
- We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you are looking deeply into yourself,…
- You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.
- There are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs.First,use of these drugs may be dangerous.Howev er,every worth-while exploration is dangerous-climb ing mountains,testi ng aircraft,rocket…
- It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.
- The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
- But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that…
- Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well…
- Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
- A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I…
- We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every…
- Belief…is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or (will or) wish to be…Faith is an unreserved opening of the mind to…
- Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two…
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