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- 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…
- 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 problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space quite another, or…
- What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call the here and now. You are something the whole universe…
- For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it is the secret…
- The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the composition... Same way…
- 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,…
- There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees, there are no…
- Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water†is a noise…
- The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate,…
- Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
- You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole…
- 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,"…
- When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
- What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a…
- Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re…
- One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
- 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…
- When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing…
- No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the…
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