- Nov 07, 2020
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I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
- Living
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No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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Saints need sinners.
- Born
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Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
- Owe
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I owe my solitude to other people.
- Only
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
- God
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Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
- He
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Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
- Cannot
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And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.
- Belief
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And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
- Down
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Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
- God
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But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
- Go
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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 you're connected with everything.
- Faith
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But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
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But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
- Openness
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Faith is a state of openness or trust.
- People
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In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
- God
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In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
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Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
- Act
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So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
- Feel
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The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.
- Confronting
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The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.
- God
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The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
- Happens
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We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
- Living
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What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.
- Inspirational
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You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
- Love
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
- Dance
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
- People
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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
- Live
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The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
- Heart
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
- Night
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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 and badly arranged constellations.
- Imagination
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