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Even the intellectual understanding of the inexistence of our 'selves' is a rare and bitter attainment which few even attempt. And that is only the elimination round which qualifies us for access to Reality... Intellectual understanding should be not indispensable to a 'simple' mind, but, with our conditioning, it would seem to be an almost inevitable preliminary. - Why Lazurus Laughed by Wei Wu Wei

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Yogi Bera

Yogi Berra - "If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer."

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One thing is certain, your body will get old, decay, and die. - Buddha

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Quote

Any fool can talk, but it takes a wise man to listen.

Quote

"I love mankind; it's people I can't stand." -- Charles Schulz (cartoonist)

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The fifth step of the Eightfold Path is Right Livelihood, meaning to abstain from all evil living and all manner of ill-gotten gain or means of livelihood.

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This is the way of peace: "Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love." - Peace Pilgrim

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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is 'you'. There is nothing there inside you other than that. - U.G. Krishnamurti

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Carl Jung

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung

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Whoever thinks as, from, or on behalf of, an entity which he believes himself to be, the more so if he tries to work on himself, by, with, or for such an entity - which is only a concept in mind - has not yet begun to understand what it is all about. - 'Posthumous Pieces' by Wei Wu Wei

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Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

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Google

"The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught." - Marquis de Vauvenargues

amidabuddha.org - Daily Meditation

Even the intellectual understanding of the inexistence of our 'selves' is a rare and bitter attainment which few even attempt. And that is only the elimination round which qualifies us for access to Reality... Intellectual understanding should be not indispensable to a 'simple' mind, but, with our conditioning, it would seem to be an almost inevitable preliminary. - Why Lazurus Laughed by Wei Wu Wei

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Gmail - quote

"The certainties of one age are the problems of the next." --Richard Henry Tawney (historian)

Funny quote

“Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.”

Funny quote

Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Albert Einstein

There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being. - Albert Einstein

Buddha

Once you are living your life in awareness, it will be as though you stand high above others, witnessing their suffering, while you do not suffer at all. - Buddha

Buddha

All such notions as causation, succession, atoms, primary elements...are all figments of the imagination and manifestations of the mind. -Buddha

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Once you are living your life in awareness, it will be as though you stand high above others, witnessing their suffering, while you do not suffer at all. - Buddha

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But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest. - Buddha

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Pychology

"People want economy and they will pay any price to get it." - Lee Iacocca