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“Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.”
― Friedrich von Hayek

“Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.”
― Samuel Beckett

“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
― Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.”
― Frank Zappa

“I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”
― Thomas Carlyle

“Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.”
― Thomas Carlyle

“The tragedy of life is not so much what
men suffer, but rather what they miss.”
― Thomas Carlyle

“Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.”
― Thomas Carlyle

“Silence is more eloquent than words.”
― Thomas Carlyle

“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.”
― Lao Tzu

“Those who know don’t talk. Those who talk don’t know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Be like the Tao. It can’t be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace. It gives itself up continually. That is why it endures.”
― Tao Te Ching

“What you resist, persists”
― C.G. Jung

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Music is the best.”
― Frank Zappa

“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.”
― Frank Zappa

“Therefore when Tao is lost, there is goodness.
When goodness is lost, there is kindness.
When kindness is lost, there is justice.
When justice is lost, there is ritual.
Now ritual is the husk of faith and loyalty, the beginning of confusion.
Knowledge of the future is only a flowery trapping of the Tao.
It is the beginning of folly.”
― Lao Tsu (Gai-Fu Feng and Jane English translation)

“We're all just walking, talking blobs of Earth.”
― James A. Moore

“Give it up! Forget it! You are never going to be enlightened! Don't bother trying. All effort is useless. You don't stand a chance. Why struggle? You work hard at it and you only end up fodder for the priests and other hucksters. Don't let them con you. No one in the whole history of man has ever made it. RAM TZU knows this ... You are not going to be the first.”
― Ram Tzu, No Way: A Guide for the Spiritually 'Advanced'

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
― Albert Einstein

“Self-liberation’ implies the instantaneous dissolution of whatever enters into awareness.”
― Keith Dowman, Dzogchen Nonmeditation

“Even at the moment of direct perception when gnostic awareness of emptiness as form and form as emptiness is experienced, the mind is preparing to dualize the situation.”
― Keith Dowman, The Flight of the Garuda: The Dzogchen Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism

“The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life: your memories, your attachments.
They burn them all away, but they're not punishing you, they're freeing your soul.
If you're frightened of dying and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away.
If you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth.”
― Meister Eckhart