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"For our radically misnamed "materialistic civilization must above all cultivate the love of material, of earth, air, and water, of mountains and forests, of excellent food and imaginative housing and clothing, and of cherishing our artfully erotic contacts between human bodies. Certainly, all these so"called "things are as impermanent as ripples in water, but what life, what love, what energy is there in a perfectly pure abstraction or a totally solid and eternally indestructible rock?"
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"Man with his new powers became rich like Midas but all that he touched had gone dead and cold."
"If the only thing keeping your partner in relationship with you is your money, then be prepared to lose that person to someone else with more money than you."
"Isn't materialism the cause of much that is evil in the land of mortal souls?"
"Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people."
"I am a good toy , guaranteed you will enjoy till you will play with me. and i am quite also . i do not do any complaint as you will throw-out me after get new one.and you do not need to worry. i do not have heart feelings and emotions so i do not feel pain and hurt. I am toy. i am just a toy of other's hand for entertain them."
"God makes and apparel shapes: but it's money that finishes the man."
"Loving money is more of a problem for those who do not have it."
"Anything you can acquire is only another thing you'll lose."
"It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you."
"People are preoccupied only with money. They are looking to see where they can get it from. Hey, why are you looking for it in a 'cemetery'? This worldly life has become like a cemetery. There is no love to be seen in it. The way in which money comes to one is a natural thing. It is (by way of) scientific circumstantial evidences. Why do we have to run after it? If it were to free (liberate) us itself, then it would be very good, right?"
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"A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter."
"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."
"The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible."
"Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver."
"One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt."
"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."
"You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing."
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