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" Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I owe my solitude to other people. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Faith is a state of openness or trust. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

Differentiation

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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