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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
“The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.”
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“In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.”
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“We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”
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“Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.”
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“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― Paradise Lost
― Paradise Lost
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