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“Out of Mind spring in-numerable things, conditioned by discrimination (i.e., classification) and habit-energy; these things people accept as an external world.…”
― The Way of Zen
― The Way of Zen
“It had been reported that Tanuki fell from the sky using his scrotum as a parachute.”
― Villa Incognito
― Villa Incognito
“[T]he anxiety-laden problem of what will happen to me when I die is, after all, like asking what happens to my fist when I open my hand, or where my lap goes when I stand up.”
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“You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.”
― Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
― Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
“The effects of what are now called psychedelic (mind–manifesting) chemicals differ from those of alcohol as laughter differs from rage or delight from depression. There is really no analogy between being “high” on LSD and “drunk” on bourbon. True, no one in either state should drive a car, but neither should one drive while reading a book, playing a violin, or making love. Certain creative activities and states of mind demand a concentration and devotion which are simply incompatible with piloting a death–dealing engine along a highway.”
― Does It Matter? Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality
― Does It Matter? Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality
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