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- Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be
- You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.
- By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives…
- 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…
- Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own…
- Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation…
- Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut…
- If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are…
- If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.
- What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.
- What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of…
- Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?
- To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.
- Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to…
- You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so…
- 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…
- And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning,…
- For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found…
- 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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- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash