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"...free themselves from suffering by realizing the impermanence & interdependence of everything upon w/c their suffering depended, including & especially themselves. The Buddha called this the realization of shunyata, the view that because nothing exists independently of other things, it has no nature of its own, & everything is therefore empty & this emptiness is the true nature of reality." — Nov 06, 2018 10:22AM
"...free themselves from suffering by realizing the impermanence & interdependence of everything upon w/c their suffering depended, including & especially themselves. The Buddha called this the realization of shunyata, the view that because nothing exists independently of other things, it has no nature of its own, & everything is therefore empty & this emptiness is the true nature of reality." — Nov 06, 2018 10:22AM
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"“Never before in history, and never with such insidiousness, had genes been so effortlessly conflated with identity, identity with defectiveness, and defectiveness with extermination”" — Feb 15, 2017 09:15AM
"“Never before in history, and never with such insidiousness, had genes been so effortlessly conflated with identity, identity with defectiveness, and defectiveness with extermination”" — Feb 15, 2017 09:15AM
“I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
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“We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”
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“The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.”
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Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.”
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“Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.”
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“under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.”
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