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

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Saints need sinners. "

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

" But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. "

" 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. "

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

" You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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