Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Death)
Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
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The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many be corrupted.
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The Beatific Vision, Sat Chit Ananda, Being-Awareness-Bliss-for the first time I understood, not on the verbal level, not by inchoate hints or at a distance, but precisely and completely what those prodigious syllables referred to. And then I remembered a passage I had read in one of Suzuki's essays. "What is the Dharma-Body of the Buddha?" (' "the Dharma-Body of the Buddha" is another way of saying Mind, Suchness, the Void, the Godhead.) The question is asked in a Zen monastery by an earnest and bewildered novice. And with the prompt irrelevance of one of the Marx Brothers, the Master answers, "The hedge at the bottom of the garden." "And the man who realizes this truth," the novice dubiously inquires, "what, may I ask, is he?" Groucho gives him a whack over the shoulders with his staff and answers, "a golden-haired lion."
It had been, when I read it, only a vaguely pregnant piece of nonsense. Now it was all as clear as day, as evident as Euclid. Of course the Dharma-Body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously, it was these flowers, it was anything that I—or rather the blessed Not-I, released for a moment from my throttling embrace—cared to look at.
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There is so many sick and exhausted people that, generally, the paradise is conceived like a place to rest.
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Posted by: Edoardo Grimoldi
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
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Posted by: Andrea Manfrč
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Music)
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Posted by: Maresa Schembri
Constancy is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely constant people are the dead.
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Posted by: Cheope
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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