"But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is."

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"But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is."

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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."

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"The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible."

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"What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do."

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"You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean."

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"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."

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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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"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."

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"Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver."

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"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."

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"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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