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" A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. "
Sense
Myth
Make
" And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment. "
Natural
Inside
Environment
" And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. "
Holding On
Attitude
Faith
" Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver. "
Cosmic
No Idea
Moral
" But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. "
Nobody
Being
Everybody
" But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything. "
Forest
Realize
Understand
" But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. "
Go
Open
Truth
" But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. "
Nothing
Me
Powerful
" But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. "
Try
See
Pretend
" Faith is a state of openness or trust. "
Openness
Faith
State
" How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. "
Eyes
Possible
God
" If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly. "
Will
You
Things
" I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. "
Present
Past
Real
" In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. "
America
People
Universe
" In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. "
Nature
Religion
Faith
" I owe my solitude to other people. "
Other
Owe
People
" Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. "
Love
You
Pretend
" No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. "
Future
Plans
Capacity
" 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. "
Future
Love
Work
" Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it. "
Not Knowing
Done
Just
" Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. "
Rorschach
Know
Only
" Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. "
Whole
Life
Religion
" Saints need sinners. "
Sinners
Need
Saints
" Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. "
Believe
Principles
Born
" So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing. "
Changing
Preaching
Stop
" So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself. "
Relationship
Self
Yourself
" So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level. "
Your
Harmony
Being
" Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. "
Process
Same
Technology
" The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. "
Most
Become
Difficulty
" The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention. "
Attention
Other
Nothing
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