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"[...] what is unknown is not a mere blank space in a web of words but a window in the mind, a window whose name is not ignorance but wonder. The timid mind shuts this window with a bang, and is silent and thoughtless about what it does not know in order to chatter the more about what it thinks it knows."

"The faster things move in circles, the sooner they become indistinguishable blurs. It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about “I.”"

"The “I” was not, is not, and never will be a part of human personality. There is nothing unique, or “different,” or interesting about it. On the contrary, the more human beings pursue it, the more uniform, uninteresting, and impersonal they become."

"Eternal life is realized when the last trace of difference between “I” and “now” has vanished—when there is just this “now” and nothing else."

"Science and religion are talking about the same universe, but they are using different kinds of language."

"Beside the examples of saints and heroes I feel ashamed that I amount to nothing, and so I begin to practice humility because of my wounded pride, and charity because of my self-love. The urge is ever to make “I” amount to something. [...] I efface myself in order to assert myself, and give myself away in order to keep myself. The whole thing is a contradiction."

"As long as you do not know how to die and come to life again, you are but a sorry traveler on this dark earth."

"Nevertheless, the physical reality is that my body exists only in relation to this universe, and in fact I am as attached to it and dependent on it as a leaf on a tree. I feel cut off only because I am split within myself, because I try to be divided from my own feelings and sensations. What I feel and sense therefore seems foreign to me."