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“I don't need to believe. I know (God exists).”
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“God or Enlightenment is the ultimate pleasure, uninterrupted happiness. No such thing exists. Your wanting something that does not exist is the root of your problem. Transformation, moksha, and all that stuff are just variations of the same theme: permanent happiness. The body can't take uninterrupted pleasure for long; it would be destroyed. Wanting a fictitious permanent state of happiness is actually a serious neurological problem.”
― No Way Out
― No Way Out
“You don't actually know anything about that person or that thing, except what you are projecting on that object or the individual. The knowledge you have about it is the experience. It goes on and on. That's all. What that really is, you have no way of knowing.”
― Courage to Stand Alone: Enriched edition. A Radical Exploration of Self-Discovery and Non-Duality
― Courage to Stand Alone: Enriched edition. A Radical Exploration of Self-Discovery and Non-Duality
“The lesson is a straightforward one: everything in this life is more trouble than it is worth. And simply to be alive is to be emwombed in trouble.”
― The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
― The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
“Somewhere along the line in human consciousness, there occurred self-consciousness. (When I use the word "self" I don't mean that there is a self or a center there.) That consciousness separated man from the totality of things. Man, in the beginning, was a frightened being. He turned everything that was uncontrollable into something divine or cosmic. and worshiped it. It was in that frame of mind that he created, quote and unquote, "God." So culture, is responsible for whatever you are. I maintain that all the political institutions and ideologies we have today are the outgrowth of the same religious thinking of man. The spiritual teachers are in a way responsible for the tragedy of mankind.”
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