- Nov 07, 2020
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- Mountains
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
- Nov 07, 2020
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.
- Mountains
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I am is a heretic who's recanted and, thereby, in everyone's eyes, saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: 'No, I didn't screw up.'
- Gears
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain.
- Compounds
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quality is the Buddha.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020