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“As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences, 'They are neither good nor bad. Keep meditating.' ”
― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

tags: buddhism, detachment

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“If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is not the scholar or philosopher, not the master, saint, or teacher, but life itself - direct experience of life. The same is true for art. Here, too, we an dispense with "the masters.”
― Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

tags: cult-fave

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“My religion is to live - and die - without regret.”
― Milarepa

tags: buddhism, metaphysics, philosophy, religion

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“Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.”
― Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

tags: flaws, life, paradise, spain

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“The ideal community, in a sense, would be the loose, fluid aggregation of individuals who elected to be alone and detached in order to be at one with themselves and all that lives and breathes. It would be a God-filled community, even if none of its members believe in (a) God. It would be a paradise, even though the word had long disappeared from our vocabulary.”
― Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

tags: community-paradise

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