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"Taking crazy things seriously is --a serious waste of time."

Haruki Murakami
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Love thy neighbor.

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"My body is born of formlessness,
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*The consciousness of a dream-man is originally empty;
*Both pain and pleasure are empty and I have no abode."

Vipasayin Buddha
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Our problem is that our attention, and our belief, is aimed in the wrong direction.
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"Stop all your concern for everything and have a rest."

Hui Hai
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"If the doors to perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite."

William Blake
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As we've mentioned before, Ramana would say, "Go to the root of both":
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Chandradhar Sharma
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Be still, and know that I am.

The Bible
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Who knows that you don't know?
You know, you know...

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"Simply see what the one who can know dimness and dullness ultimately is. Just look right here, don't seek transcendent enlightenment. Just observe and observe, and suddenly you'll laugh aloud. Beyond this, there's nothing that can be said."

Ta H'ui
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"A Buddha is one who does not seek."

Pai-Chang
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Helen Schucman
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*"Unless I look upon that which is not there, my present happiness is all I see."

A Course In Miracles
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*A sage drops her burden by realizing that there never ever was a burden to begin with.

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"The Buddha taught to lay down those things that lack a real abiding essence. If you lay everything down, you will see the truth. If you don't, you won't. That's the way it is.
*"And when wisdom awakens within you, you will see truth wherever you look. Truth is all you'll see."

Ajahn Chah
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"...release from this assumed 'bondage' can only be obtained by comprehending the falsity of these assumptions which are responsible for the presumed bondage, for both 'assumptions' and 'bondage' are apparent only, i.e. are purely phenomenal."

Wei Wu Wei
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"The dynamic radiance of spontaneous presence arises as anything and everything..."

Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
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What knows?

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"Wisdom says I am nothing.
*Love says I am everything.
*Between the two my life flows."

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Who are you?
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"...nothing is exalted or sacred, only true or not true."

Jed McKenna
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"What is arousing bodhicitta according to the uncommon approach of Dzogchen? This is something that is not even mentioned in the other vehicles. It is 'summoning forth or evoking mind as wisdom'. There is a difference between 'generating bodhicitta using the mind' and 'summoning forth or evoking the mind as wisdom'. What is the uniqueness of generating the heart of the enlightened mind 'as wisdom'? It begins from the same premise as the motivation of the sutra vehicle, from the realization that 'all sentient beings who do not realize sunyata and who are deluded wander endlessly in the ocean of samsara'. But the key point here is that all these sentient beings are recognized as having within themselves inherent wisdom, self-abiding dharmakaya--the self-knowing rigpa, the unity of space and wisdom, that is the actual lama who is the all-pervasive sovereign, the glorious primordial buddha Samantabhadra. That actually resides in us all, and so we wish: 'May I be able to bring all sentient beings to the level where they realize this'.
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Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche
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"...in you is the presence that will be,
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Rilke
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"It is clinging to the false that makes the true so difficult to see."

Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"And when the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is given."

A Course In Miracles
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"Existence is the only thing beyond any doubt, while every concept about it is open to question."

Karl Renz
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