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

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" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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

" A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. "

" 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. "

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

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

" The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "