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"Suppressing the fear of death makes it all the stronger. The point is only to know, beyond any shadow of doubt, that "I" and all other "things" now present will vanish, until this knowledge compels you to release them - to know it now as surely as if you had just fallen off the rim of the Grand Canyon. Indeed you were kicked off the edge of a precipice when you were born, and it's no help to cling to the rocks falling with you. If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all."
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"Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees."
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"What is the point of our lives? There isn't any. I can't seem to decide how much horror and how much joy lies within that simple truth, but I know it is both of those things at once."
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"The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when 'should be' gets crushed by what is. Sometimes I think it would be easier to die than to face that, because 'what could have been' is much more highly regarded than 'what should have been.' Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug."
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"It doesn't matter where I go, I don't want to be there. And then I get to the next place, and I don't want to be there either."
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"What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?"
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"What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward."
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"Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?"
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"We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad."
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"And leaning on the windowsill to enjoy the day, gazing at the variegated mass of the whole city, just one thought fills my soul: that I profoundly wish to die, to cease, to see no more light shining on this city or any city, to think no more, to feel no more, to leave behind the march of time and the sun like a piece of wrapping paper, to remove like a heavy suit " next to the big bed " the involuntary effort of being."
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"It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish."
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"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on."
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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."
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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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"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."
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"Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it."
Religion
"Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it."
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"I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions that they exist only in the present which is what there is and all that there is."
Philosophy
"The brush must draw by itself. This cannot happen if one does not practice constantly. But neither can it happen if one makes an effort."
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"But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful."
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"Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated."
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