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“The energy fluctuated, helpless with its desire to experience itself, and out of the hundreds of possible outcomes, the universe we live in came to be”
― The Yoga of Max's Discontent
― The Yoga of Max's Discontent
“Even goodness shackled a person. Every concept bound. We all built houses on the sand, destined to fade away in dust.”
― The Yoga of Max's Discontent
― The Yoga of Max's Discontent
“The way out of the cycle was to sublimate the I principle, relinquish all individual desire, to restrain the naturally outgoing mind fueled by the senses and turn it inward. Once it focused within, the mind saw its real nature of pure consciousness and rejected the individual desires and thoughts surrounding it.”
― The Yoga of Max's Discontent
― The Yoga of Max's Discontent
“His actions were neither good nor bad. They were like those of the rhododendron and the pine trees on the mountains that were his home, which flowered without thinking, then withered away without clinging, helpless to act as they were.”
― The Yoga of Max's Discontent
― The Yoga of Max's Discontent
“All were made of the same substratum, each linked by the same vibrating, intelligent energy, separated by their sense of I”
― The Yoga of Max's Discontent
― The Yoga of Max's Discontent
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