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“I learnt, too, that when it’s the thoughts of a man that are distorted and flaming like a jungle it’s the wickedest and silliest thing you can do to give his mind complete rest. Then, like a spider, his Idea (for everyone has an Idea that is the driving-power of his whole mind) begins to work and weave, out of its own substance, a filmy web that grows and tangles the mind until——”
― Randalls Round
― Randalls Round
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. —Buddha”
― The Himalayan Codex
― The Himalayan Codex
“No inner voice wandering narratively through past and future. No emotionally colored memories rising up, or plans projected forward in time. Instead, it exists in a state of pure awareness that encompasses all possible states simultaneously.”
― Nexus
― Nexus
“Only two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity. I’m not sure about the former.”
― The Himalayan Codex
― The Himalayan Codex
“Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed. Occasionally there were the dim signals from deep within the cavern in which another man was located—so that each might grope toward the other. Yet because they did not know one another, and could not understand one another, and dared not trust one another, and felt from infancy the terrors and insecurity of that ultimate isolation—there was the hunted fear of man for man, the savage rapacity of man toward man.”
― Second Foundation
― Second Foundation
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