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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."
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"Don't waste our children's future on man's past."
"Trying to see the face of the future? Know ye not that the future has infinite faces?"
"However much things have been said in the past, there will be always something new to be said in the future!"
"Since many things we see were once an idea, let us create good ideas today because they will be the realities of tomorrow! When you create an idea, do not forget that you shape the future! Idea is your God side! With ideas, you can change the universe, but only with very great ideas!"
"Since the future is unknown, nobody can really know where he is going! When asked, tell them you know not where you are going! You can only say where you wish to go!"
"I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before his recurrence that I'd never grow old with Augustus Waters. But thinking about Lidewij and her boyfriend, I felt robbed. I would probably never again see the ocean from thirty thousand feet above, so far up that you can't make out the waves or any boats, so that the ocean is a great and endless monolith. I could imagine it. I could remember it. But I couldn't see it again, and it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again."
"In the future, you will always encounter the past!"
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"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god."
"The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible."
"What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do."
"You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver."
"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."
"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."
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