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"What is awakening? Awakening is the cessation of self-deception! Religion is self-deception; fate is self-deception; the idea that there is no death but only continuation is a self-deception! Real awakening is to acquire a scientific mind, it is to meet face to face with the bare realities, and it is to leave the spiritual fallacies and fantasies! And this is real awakening!"
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"A wispy murmur in the blackness. Blackness, where before there was only nothingness. It was dark, inky and thick, but there now existed the palpable sense of tangibility. She gasped in alarm, but no sound came out of her throat. "Where am I?," she shouted, but no words made it past her lips."

"Sometimes,you don't wake up.But if you happento, you know thingswill never bethe same."

"Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they'll say you're crazy and you're blasphemous, and they'll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, 'My goodness, I've just discovered that I'm God,' they'll laugh and say, 'Oh, congratulations, at last you found out."

"I believe that there is only one kind of love-real love-trying to come alive in us despite our limiting assumptions, the distortions of our culture, and the habits of fear, self-condemnation, and isolation that we tend to acquire just by living a life."

"Secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not."

"And when I wake up it's wonderful, like I've been carried quietly onto a calm, peaceful shore, and the dream, and its meaning, has broken over me like a wave and is ebbing away now, leaving me with a single, solid certainty. I know now."
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"To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!"

"No ethical person wants to be a king or a queen, because there is no ethics and honor in putting yourself in a place higher than others!"

"The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!"

"Everybody lives in this world, except lovers! They live in an isolated small place called 'You and I' planet!"

"To kill for fun is the job of the psychopaths! And what is a matador, apart from being a mentally ill person?"

"Romanticism in loneliness is a true romanticism, but romanticism when others are around is suspicious because you may be pretending!"

"The strength of your mind determines the depth of your desperation! The weaker the mind, the deeper the desperation!"
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