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" The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it. "

" Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. "

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

" 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. "

" The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. "

" Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Saints need sinners. "

" You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. "

" Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver. "

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

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

" 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. "

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