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"People spend their entire lives at those lower altitudes without any awareness that this high country exists."
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"Higher consciousness means your self consciousness ceases to exist, you become the ocean of life and a part of the universe."
"If there is a wasp in the room, I'd like to be able to see it."
"He who is deaf to wisdom is blind to good."
"It is not possible to know 'Who am I?' by 'doing'. 'Doing' (anything), requires egoism, and where there is egoism, 'Who am I' cannot be known."
"We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes."
"The attitude of others towards you is the reflection of their state of mind."
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"He comments on how amazing it is that everything in the universe can be described by the twenty-six written characters with which they have been working. His (Korean) friends nod and smile and eat the food they've taken from tins and say no pleasantly."
"The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around."
"What he's looking for, what he wants, is all around him, but he doesn't want that because it is all around him. Every step's an effort, both physically and spiritually, because he imagines his goal to be external and distant."
"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion."
"When spontaneity and individuality and really good original stuff occurred in a classroom it was in spite of the instruction, not because of it. This seemed to make sense. He was ready to resign. Teaching dull conformity to hateful students wasn't what he wanted to do."
"The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling."
"Bill arrives with a grin about something. Sure, he's got some jets for my machine and knows right were they are. I'll have to wait a second though. He's got to close a deal out in back on some Harley parts. I go with him out in a shed in back and see he is selling a whole Harley machine in used parts, except for the frame, which the customer already has. He is selling them all for $125. Not a bad price at all.Coming back I comment, 'He'll know something about motorcycles before he gets those together.'Bill laughs. 'And that's the best way to learn, too."
"Historically mystics have claimed that for a true understanding of reality metaphysics is too 'scientific. Metaphysics is not reality. Metaphysics is names about reality. Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty-thousand-page menu and no food."
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