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"The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in livingcreatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human beings it was visible only when they were inrepose, their minds untroubled, their bodies motionless."
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"The outer expression of a person often reflects the inner perception and deeper beliefs."

"All shoes have value but shoes do not have same value."

"Being rich or famous does not equate an effective life."

"All those we can love, think, or imagine are more real than those we can see or have seen."

"If your life is founded on what you can see then your success will be insignificant and very brief."

"What I discovered this freak me out. That the people will check out a book with naked woman, but won't check out a book without this WHY??What are the differences?"

"Eyes are a deaf man's ears. Ears are a blind man's eyes."

"We are not in the world, the world is inside us."

"What you focus on gets prettier, what you love gets closer."

"Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought."
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"In real life there is no such person as the average man. There are only particular men, women and children, each with his or her inborn idiosyncrasies of mind and body, and all trying (or becoming compelled) to squeeze their biological diversities into the uniformity of some cultural mold."

"One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing when one happens to be the sufferer, but it makes pleasure possible for the rest of the world."

"To associate with other like-minded people in small purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction."

"Choiceless awareness - at every moment and in all the circumstances of life - is the only effective meditation."

"The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know one must be an actor as well as a spectator."

"Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. And, of course, whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered."

"God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment."
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