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" But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. "

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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. "

" You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. "

" But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. "

" Saints need sinners. "

" 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. "

" We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. "

" The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. "

" Faith is a state of openness or trust. "

" 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. "

" The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity. "

" If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly. "

" So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level. "

" No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. "

" And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. "

" The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. "

" To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. "

" Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. "

" 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. "

" Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. "

" Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. "

" The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. "

" The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile. "

" We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us. "

Differentiation

" I owe my solitude to other people. "