“Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.”
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“Life isn't about finding yourself, or finding anything. Life is about creating yourself. And creating things.”
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“When the eye sees, it simply registers color and shape. All the rest takes place in the mind.”
― Who Is My Self?: A Guide to Buddhist Meditation
― Who Is My Self?: A Guide to Buddhist Meditation
“The measuring of worth and success in the terms of time, and the insistent demand for assurances of a promising future, make it impossible to live freely both in the present and in the "promising" future when it arrives. For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.”
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