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"When we face the vanity of our best efforts, their triviality, their involvement in illusion, we become desperate. And then we are tempted to do anything as long as it seems to be good. We may abandon a better good with which we have become disillusioned, and embrace a lessor one with a frenzy that prevents us from seeing the greater illusion."

"People are constantly trying to use you to help them create an illusion by which they live. Especially various collective illusions."

"Meanwhile I have a hard time appearing cheerful and sociable. I can't say I've tried too hard, either. Complete disgust with the stupid mentality we cultivate in our monasteries. Deliberate cult of frustration and nonsense. Professional absurdity. Isn't life absurd enough already without our adding to it our own fantastic frustrations and stupidities?"
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