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- The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more…
- Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy.…
- How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such a fabulous…
- Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves and…
- 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…
- The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions…
- We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we…
- "It is essential to understand this point thoroughly: that the thing-in-itself, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral, is not only unknowable-it does not exist. This is…
- When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous,…
- The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.
- The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to…
- Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown…
- 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…
- Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.
- The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the…
- And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize that it is…
- We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
- Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
- Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end,"…
- People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
- The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
- But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It…
- The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness…
- To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to…
- Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a…
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle