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"An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality."
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"You can't escape the existential suffering of life as long as you are living. So get used to it."
"Your skin is your skin. Your legs are your legs. Your hair is your hair. Your smile is your smile. Your past is your past. You can waste your life hating these things, but you may as well learn to accept them. Both routes are difficult and full of pain, but with acceptance, you will be happy one day, while with hatred, you never will."
"Until I realize that it's all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it."
"Don't resent a woman for who she is not, love her for who she is."
"Accept yourself in a way you are created."
"You'll see so much more beauty in the world if you can accept that there is good in every little thing around you."
"You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them."
"Life is all I have, it is enough!"
"Disturbing anything [situation] results in damage. To improve, you do not need to disturb anything that is natural and has turned bad. You need to make way out; you need to find a solution."
"Be open minded like the sky. Be accepting like the ocean. Be loving like a flower."
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"To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top."
"Grades really cover up failure to teach. A bad instructor can go through an entire quarter leaving absolutely nothing memorable in the minds of his class, curve out the scores on an irrelevant test, and leave the impression that some have learned and some have not. But if the grades are removed the class is forced to wonder each day what it's really learning. The questions, What's being taught? What's the goal? How do the lectures and assignments accomplish the goal? become ominous. The removal of grades exposes a huge and frightening vacuum."
"The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling."
"In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty..."
"The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed."
"Dad?'What?' A small bird rises from a tree in front of us.'What should I be when I grow up?'The bird disappears over a far ridge. I don't know what to say. 'Honest,' I finally say."
"Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?"
"During periods of root expansion things have always looked as confused and topsy-turvy and purposeless as they do now. The whole Renaissance is supposed to have resulted from the topsy-turvy feeling caused by Columbus' discovery of a new world. It just shook people up. The topsy-turviness of that time is recorded everywhere. There was nothing in the flat-earth views of the Old and New Testaments that predicted it. Yet people couldn't deny it. The only way they could assimilate it was to abandon the entire medieval outlook and enter into a new expansion of reason."
"When spontaneity and individuality and really good original stuff occurred in a classroom it was in spite of the instruction, not because of it. This seemed to make sense. He was ready to resign. Teaching dull conformity to hateful students wasn't what he wanted to do."
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