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

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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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. "

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

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

" I owe my solitude to other people. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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