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“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. —VLADIMIR NABOKOV, Speak, Memory: A Memoir”
― The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life
― The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life
“I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.”
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“No matter what we do in this life, all the information we gather and all the knowledge we accumulate and all the effort we make to amass wealth through work and business—when the time comes for us to leave this life, all of it is futile and in vain. It will not help us in any way whatsoever. I can easily say this since I am not educated at all! So I can smile and act big about this. Don’t be angry, please.”
― As It Is, Volume I: Essential Teachings from the Dzogchen Perspective
― As It Is, Volume I: Essential Teachings from the Dzogchen Perspective
“Long ago, when an early galaxy began to pour light out into the surrounding darkness, no witness could have known that billions of years later some remote clumps of rock and metal, ice and organic molecules would fall together to make place called Earth; or that life would arise and thinking beings evolve who would one day capture a little of that galactic light, and try to puzzle out what had sent it on its way. And after the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being -- and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth.”
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“Self knowledge is always bad news.”
― Giles Goat-Boy
― Giles Goat-Boy
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