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"The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive."
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"I'm not an Emontional, but how???I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has happen and it can't be changed", "..But probably it is for good"."

"Don't worry about how people accept you or react to you. Accept everyone with love."

"Writing is a cerebral journey where the writer molds experience into useful thought capsules and thoughtfully takes recitative inventory of their spiritual depot. The act of personal essay writing is a subtle search to track and discover how a contiguous chain of occurrences links the essayist's case history of rational and irrational behavior. Writing a person's life story fosters acceptance of their prior personal failures and serves to open a doorway to living modestly and harmoniously."

"I thought about Kizuki. "So you finally made Naoko yours," I heard myself telling him. Oh, well, she was yours to begin with. Now maybe, she's where she belongs. But in this world, in this imperfect world of the living, I did the best I could for Naoko."

"Don't resent a woman for who she is not, love her for who she is."

"I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend."

"God said to accept whatever circumstances that come along. Circumstance is a natural thing. In it, 'Do this and don't do that'- should not be there. Circumstances are a 'scientific circumstantial evidence' ['Vyavasthit']. You should 'settle them with equanimity'."

"The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left."
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"When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience."

"Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known."

"The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month."

"Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic."

"Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body."

"Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does."

"We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization."

"For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals."

"Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant."
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