Monsters of the Mind

The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist. Fear, doubt, and hate have hamstrung more people than beasts ever have. - Christopher Paolini

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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not discreetly how to use it. - Unknown

The most dangerous weapon of a warrior is his mind. - Kaustav Ram

An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body. - Benjamin Whichcote

The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain. - Unknown

There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there. - Henry Ward Beecher

The only prison we need to escape from is the prison of our own minds. - Unknown

The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or seas; they are in the minds and hearts of men. - Unknown

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. - Alice Walker

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The Teachings of The Buddha

The buddha-dharma (Teachings of the Buddha), does not invite us to dabble in abstract notions. Rather, the task it presents us with is to attend to what we actually experience, right in this moment. You don't have to look "over there." You don't have to figure anything out. You don't have to acquire anything. And you don't have to run off to Tibet, or Japan, or anywhere else. You wake up right here. In fact, you can only wake up right here. So you don't have to do the long search, the frantic chase, the painful quest. You're already right where you need to be. - Steve Hagen

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All men tremble at punishment, all men fear death; remember that you are like unto them, and do not kill, nor cause slaughter. He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after death.

When we are thinking generously, we give allowance to the inconsiderate, the unkind, the selfish and mean people in the world. Thereupon, we become generous in our speech; to speak well of others behind their backs, to rejoice in their success, to understand their errors, Then our deeds become generous too. - Unknown

Merit is not burnt by fire, by wind too it cannot be broken asunder, and not by water be rotten, and it is able to sustain the world. Merit can bravely withstand, both the king and the thief, and cannot be taken away by humans and non-humans.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana. - Buddha

Love yourself and be awake – today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, then teach others, and so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked you must first do a harder thing – straighten yourself. You are the only master. Who else? Subdue yourself, and discover your master. - Buddha

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Religion – If…

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish – if a little more enlightened, religion would perish. - Robert Green Ingersoll

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If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose. - Sri Aurobindo

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world. - Christopher Hitchens

If the leaders of our religion cannot maintain their vows in the face of temptation... then perhaps it is time to question whether or not the whole system is flawed. - Lorkan

If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow. - Dan Simmons

If your religion requires that you hate someone, you need a new religion. - Unknown

If the fundamentals of religions are peace and love, then why are the religious fundamentalists such massive, intolerant, violent, bigoted pricks? - Pablo Paredes

If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it? - Benjamin Franklin

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Think And Exist

I read, and I think about what I read – whether it makes sense – whether it agrees with logic and common sense. Unfortunately, I am not able to put my thoughts across eloquently and convincingly. Needless to say, I am not a debater either. That is why I quote others.

The following are from a Facebook Page called “Think & Exist”.

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God

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If you are right to believe that religious faith offers the only real basis for morality, then atheists should be less moral than believers. In fact, they should be utterly immoral. Are they? Do members of atheist organizations in the United States commit more than their fair share of violent crimes? Do the members of the National Academy of Sciences, 93 percent of whom do not accept the idea of God, lie and cheat and steal with abandon? We can be reasonably confident that these groups are at least as well behaved as the general population. And yet, atheists are the most reviled minority in the United States. - Sam Harris

It’s a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn’t think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself. - Richard Dawkins

Since ancient times, the philosophers' secret has always been this: we know that God does not exist, or, at least, if he does, he's utterly indifferent to our individual affairs – but we can't let the rabble know that; it's the fear of God, the threat of divine punishment and the promise of divine reward, that keeps in line those too unsophisticated to work out questions of morality on their own. - Robert J. Sawyer

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Attachment / Detachment

There simply is nothing to which we can attach ourselves, no matter how hard we try. In time, things will change and the conditions that produced our current desires will be gone. Why then cling to them now? - Master Hsing Yun

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Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment. Know the sweet joy of the way. - Dhammapada

Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life and yet, less attached to it. - Ram Dass

Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never deciphers life. - Constantin Brancusi

If the whole world is holding on to you and you are not holding on to anything, then you are free. Let everything come and hold you, but you are not holding anything. That’s how you leave the mind and enter freedom. - Mooji

The man who will not give up his passions, who clings to anger, unkindness, sensuality, pride, vanity self-indulgence, for the momentary pleasure which their gratification affords him is a spiritual miser; he cannot have any spiritual comforts. - James Allen

Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else. - Thomas Merton

Attached to nothing, connected to everything. - Unknown

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Alan Watts

Alan Wilson Watts was a British and American writer, speaker, and self-styled "philosophical entertainer", known for interpreting and popularising Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience.

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The future is a concept, it doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That’s one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now. - Alan Watts

If you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in the running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that. - Alan Watts

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul. - Alan Watts

Every explicit duality is an implicit unity. - Alan Watts

It is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world. - Alan Watts

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. - Alan Watts

There is a price to be paid for every increase in consciousness. We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. - Alan Watts

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Food For Thought

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Eternity isn’t a long time. Eternity has noting to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. – Joseph Campbell

Around us, life bursts forth with miracles – a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere. Each human being is a multiplicity of miracles. Eyes that see thousands of colours, shapes, and forms; ears that hear a bee flying or a thunderclap; a brain that ponders a speck of dust as easily as the entire cosmos; a heart that beats in rhythm with the heartbeat of all beings. When we are tired and feel discouraged by life’s daily struggles, we may not notice these miracles, but they are always there. - Thich Nhat Hanh

As we to learn to trust the Universe, we gradually let go of our attempts to control events and exert influence over the world. By cultivating peace in our minds we become less fearful, more forgiving and compassionate. As you release egoistic intentions your actions flow from a place of deeper love and wisdom. We then become beacons of light for others, not by will or persuasion, but by living joyfully in tune with the Way. In the words of Lao Tsu, "Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.” - Unknown

Zen masters and mystics have described spititual awakening as transcending illusions of language and thought, which includes cultural ideas about linear time. Nirvina is not a place we arrive at, its a new way of experiencing everything, connecting with the mystery of Eternity and the Univrese right here and now. Loving each moment with deep gratitude and love for the miracle of our existence, as creative expressions of Nature’s diversity and consciousness on this planet. - Christotpher

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Quantum Physics

An AI Overview on what is Quantum Science, and Quantum Physics

What is meant by Quantum Science?

Quantum science emerged from studies of the smallest objects in nature. Today, it promises to deepen our understanding of the universe and deliver groundbreaking technology, from quantum computers to ultra-precise measuring devices to next-generation materials, with many of these advances happening at Caltech (California Information of Technology).

What is Quantum Physics?

Quantum physics, or quantum mechanics, is the fundamental scientific theory describing the behavior of nature at the smallest scales—atoms, electrons, and photons. It reveals that particles can behave like waves, be in multiple states at once (superposition), and that the universe is probabilistic, not strictly deterministic. 

Quantum physics is a branch of science that studies the smallest things in the universe. You might think that the smallest things are atoms, which are the building blocks of everything around us. But quantum physics goes even smaller than atoms and explores the tiny particles and waves that make up atoms.

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Zen

Zen is the direct experince of what we might call ultimate reality, or the absolute, yet it is not separate from the ordinary, the relative. This direct experience is our birthright. The practice of zazen – meditation – is a way of realizing the non-dualistic, vibrant, subtle, and internconnected nature of all life. - Unknown

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In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness. - Alan Watts

Desires and expectations are the sources of disappointment. Don’t cling to them. Do your work, walk your way. - Zen saying

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don’t serve them tea. - Shunryu Suzuki

It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean. - John J Muth

What was never lost can never be found. - Zen Saying

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. - Shunryu Suzuki-roshi

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. - Robert M. Pirsig

The bird of paradise lands only on the hand that does not grasp. - Zen Proverb

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Lao Tzu

Laozi, also romanized as Lao Tzu was a Chinese philosopher and author of the Tao Te Ching, one of the foundational texts of Taoism. The name, literally meaning 'Old Master', was likely intended to portray an archaic anonymity. A central figure in Chinese culture, Laozi is generally considered the founder of Taoism.

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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. - Lao Tzu

Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings: this is the method of Tao. - Lao-tze

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. - Lao Tzu

When you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything. - Lao Tzu

One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others. - Lao Tzu

No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth. - Lao Tzu

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. - Lao Tzu

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Energy

Our spiritual energy has to go somewhere after we passed from this world. In that sense, we can never really die. That is what Buddhism meant by ‘Life never dies...’

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Science keeps circling a bold idea matter energy and mind may be linked and Quantum thinking is pushing that question into the spotlight today. Atoms build everything we touch yet they behave like waves of possibility. This strange behavior invites deeper questions about what truly sits beneath reality. Many feel curiosity rising again as old ideas gently shift forward now.

Atoms once felt solid and final but physics revealed mostly empty space buzzing with energy. Energy then proved measurable yet oddly intangible. Experiments show observation matters at tiny scales. Some researchers wonder if awareness plays a role not mystical but informational shaping outcomes through interaction and limits of measurement. This idea keeps debate lively across labs and late nights worldwide.

Quantum discussions often spark emotion because they touch meaning not just math. When systems grow large we expect simplicity. Yet certain states refuse that comfort. They stay coherent strange and precise. That persistence hints reality may not flatten with size. Complexity might be fundamental not temporary surprising thinkers across fields and reopening deep questions again about mind matter links today.

For everyday life this does not change breakfast or traffic but it shifts perspective. It invites humility. Science grows by testing limits not declaring final truths. If consciousness relates to energy then responsibility feels shared. Observation participation and care gain weight. Curiosity becomes an ethic guiding how we explore and build futures together with patience and wonder for all minds.

These ideas remain debated and should be held lightly. Science thrives on questions backed by evidence and openness. Quantum research keeps evolving tools and language. Whether consciousness proves central or not the journey expands understanding. Share thoughts listen well and stay curious. The universe rewards careful wonder more than certainty especially when minds meet kindly across cultures and generations ahead.

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The Universe

Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to non-existent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centred on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries. - Carl Sagan

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If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. - Nikola Tesla

Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us. I don’t know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what that brings upon me. - Neil deGrasse Tyson

We do not ‘come into’ this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean ‘waves,’ the Universe ‘peoples.’ Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of Nature, a unique action of the total Universe. - Alan Watts

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. - John Muir

Each one of us, not only human beings but every leaf, every weed, exists in the way it does, only because everything else around it does. The individual and the universe are inseparable. - Alan Watts

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence. - Alan Watts

Let the waves of the Universe rise and fall as they will. You have nothing to gain or lose. You are the ocean. - Ashtavakra Gita

You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. - Andrew Boyd

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How To Practice Meditation

In meditation, one returns to one’s breath. So you see your thinking arising and you just let it go. You don’t push it away, you don’t prevent it; you don’t hold it, you return to your breath. Return to your breathing. Then over time, you get to see that your thinking has no substance. Good thinking, bad thinking, has no substance. Then it can’t control you. - Venerable Hyon Gak

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Just go into the room, open the doors and windows, sit in the center of the room and see who comes to visit. You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable. Your only job is to stay in your seat. You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come. - Ajahn Chah

Don't think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting walking, standing or lying down. When coming out of sitting, don't think that you're coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures. If you reflect in this way, you will have peace. Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you constantly. You will have a steady awareness within yourself. - Unknown

Above all, it is not necessary that we should have any unexpected, extraordinary experiences in meditation. This can happen, but if it does not, it is not a sign that the meditation period has been useless. Not only at the beginning, but repeatedly, there will be times when we feel a great spiritual dryness and apathy, an aversion, even an inability to meditate. We dare not be balked by such experiences. Above all, we must not allow them to keep us from adhering to our meditation period with great patience and fidelity. It is, therefore, not good for us to take too seriously the many untoward experiences we have with ourselves in meditation. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Truth

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. - Anais Nin

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. - Denis Diderot

Those only who can bear the truth will hear it. - Arthur Helps

Truth, like good medicine, is oftentimes repugnant to our present feelings, but gives vigour afterwards. - Edward Counsel

Truth is the one thing in nature always consistent with itself, and it is the one guide given to us in steering on the ocean of fate. - Arthur Lynch

Gold is gold, no matter how muddied it becomes. The truth always wins out in the end. - Buddhist Quote

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth. - Richard Whately

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. - Thomas Jefferson

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The Mind

All the resources we need are in the mind. Everything is in the mind. That is where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step towards getting it. - Theodore Roosevelt

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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included. - Bodhidharma

Man has amazing potentialities of mind but like treasure hidden in the mountain they are of little use to him until he has cleared away the dense matter that keeps them concealed from himself. - K. Sri Dhammananda

When mind is weak, the situation becomes a problem. When mind is balanced, the situation becomes a challenge. When mind is strong, the situation becomes an opportunity. It’s all mind game. Unknown

The greatest business of a man is to improve his mind. - Wellins Calcott

‘Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. - Michel De Montaigne

We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no effect in the exterior world that does not spring from an inner source. There is no motion that does not first occur within the mind. - (Seth) Jan Roberts

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Non-Attachment

Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: a star at dawn, a bubble in a stream; a flash of lightening in a summer cloud, a flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream. - The Budha

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Never have anything to do with likes and dislikes. The absence of what one likes is painful, as is the presence of what one dislikes. Therefore don’t take a liking to anything. To lose what one likes is hard, but there are no bonds for those who have no likes and dislikes. From preference arises sorrow, from preference arises fear, but he who is freed from preference has no sorrow and certainly no fear. - The Buddha

Conditions all go their own natural way. Whether we laugh or cry over them, they just go their own way. And there is no knowledge of science that can prevent this natural course of things. Everything falls apart in the end. - The Buddha

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well. - The Buddha

Free yourself from attachment. Know the sweet joy of the way. How joyful to look upon the awakened and to keep company with the wise. How long the road to the man who travels the road with the fool. - Buddha

All conditioned things are impermanent. When one sees this in wisdom, then one becomes dispassionate towards the painful. - The Buddha

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Religion – The Irony

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds. - John Henrik Clarke

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Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion—several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbour as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn’t straight. - Mark Twain

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, intelligent enough. - Aldous Huxley

Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions. - Blaise Pascal

Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but – live for it. - Charles Caleb Colton

Good people can do good and bad people can do evil. But for good people to do evil – that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg

Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts? - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ’til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He’s all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can’t handle money! - George Carlin

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God

For anyone who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the assumption of causality, the idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible. Neither the religion of fear nor the social-moral religion can have any hold on him. - Albert Einstein

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If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, why should we have doubts concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses? If grace does everything for them, what reason would he have for recompensing them? If he is all-powerful, how offend him, how resist him? If he is reasonable, how can he be angry at the blind, to whom he has given the liberty of being unreasonable? If he is immovable, by what right do we pretend to make him change his decrees? If he is inconceivable, why occupy ourselves with him? If he has spoken, why is the universe not convinced? If the knowledge of a God is the most necessary, why is it not the most evident and the clearest? - Percy Bysshe Shelley

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. - Charles Bukowski

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Spiritual You III

Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really you so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place. - Unknown

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In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

The doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught. - Herman Hesse

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation. - J. Krishnamurti

Simply being with other people who are also seekers and who are involved in the same quest you are is very meaningful. - Dan Wakefield

Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be. - Joseph Campbell

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them. - Albert Schweitzer

When your intent is in accordance with the Universe, things start happening. - Unknown

Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. - Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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