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“And when we are free, we can ride on the waves of birth and death without fear, helping those who are drowning in the ocean of suffering.”

We already are what we want to become. Just be yourself, we already contain the whole cosmos. This is called aimlessness, non-attainment.

“If you see a person and don’t also see his society, education, ancestors, culture, and environment, you have not really seen that person. This is called signlessness.”

“A flower is full of everything in the cosmos- sunshine, clouds, air, and space. It is empty of only one thing, a separate existence.”

“Long live impermanence”

“My definition of the Pure Land of the Buddha, the Kingdom of God, is the place where there are plenty of opportunities for you to learn to be understanding and compassionate.”

People are strange when you are a stranger

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live”

“Respiration is, at its core, reciprocation”

p.47

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.

There are some wishing upon a-mortality.

Silima khemen = May all be well

“Art reflects what I take to be the universal condition of thinking beings everywhere- that of fashioning local order out of a broader chaos, seeking perfection but finding it nowhere.”

3 works of Bach and 2 of Beethoven were included because of their mathematical nature.

“Here comes the sun” by the Beatles was not included because they did not have the rights, nor was the title going to be a funny for billions of years.

“We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.”

We content ourselves by accepting our current self rather than aspiring to be our ideal self.

there’s a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in a while, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you’ll live for ever in your own private library

The stone maintained its stony silence.

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The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.

A bit of shape and form has disappeared from the world, increasing the amount of nothingness.