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“The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.”
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“Real wisdom is the ability to understand the incredible extent to which you bullshit yourself every single moment of every day.”
― Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye
― Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye
“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
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“Rather than face what really is, we prefer to retreat and compare what we're living through with the way we think it oughta be. Suffering comes from the comparison between the two.”
― Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth about Reality
― Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth about Reality
“If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.”
― Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
― Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
Charles’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Charles’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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