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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I owe my solitude to other people. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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