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“The cure for suffering–which, as we have said, is the collision of consciousness with unconsciousness–is not to be submerged in unconsciousness, but to be raised to consciousness and to suffer more. The evil of suffering is cured by more suffering, by higher suffering. Do not take opium, but put salt and vinegar in the soul’s wound, for when you sleep and no longer feel the suffering, you are not. And to be, that is imperative. Do not then close your eyes to the agonizing Sphinx, but look her in the face and let her seize you in her mouth and crunch you with her hundred thousand poisonous teeth and swallow you. And when she has swallowed you, you will know the sweetness of the taste of suffering.”
― Miguel de Unamuno

“Though there was nowhere one so busy as he/ He was less busy than he seemed to be.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

“The magical worldview is this: As above, so below. As within, so without.”
― Carolyn Elliott, Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power

“If you are meditating and a devil appears, make the devil meditate too”
― George Gurdjieff