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"People become concerned with being more humble than other people."
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"Turn thy crown upside down! You need to feel how it is to kneel as those less fortunate than your noble deal."
"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."
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"It would seem that to be incapable of sitting and watching with the mind completely at rest is to be incapable of experiencing the world in which we live to the full. For one does not know the world simply in thinking about it and doing about it. One must first experience it more directly, and prolong the experience without jumping to conclusions."
"The common mistake of the religious celibate has been to suppose that the highest spiritual life absolutely demands the renunciation of sexuality, as if the knowledge of God were an alternative to the knowledge of woman, or to any other form of experience."
"At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die but do not seem to make a "problem" of it."
"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."
"When somebody plays music, you listen. you just follow those sounds, and eventually you understand the music. the point can't be explained in words because music is not words, but after listening for a while, you understand the point of it, and that point is the music itself. in exactly the same way, you can listen to all experiences."
"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."
"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."
"Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver."
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