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Buddhist Sutras: The Ultimate Collected Works of 10 Famous Sutras (With Active Table of Contents)
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Form is emptiness, and emptiness indeed is form. Emptiness is not different from form, form is not different from emptiness. What is form that is emptiness, what is emptiness that is form. Thus perception, name, conception, and knowledge
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Form is emptiness
“Love is wise,
Hatred is foolish”
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Hatred is foolish”
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“But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.”
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“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.”
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings”
― The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
― The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.”
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