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The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.


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Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.



When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.



Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.

Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.



When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?"

When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?"



Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.



Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.



The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.



If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything



The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.



Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.





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It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupidity.

It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupidity.



Whatever you gain through self promotion you'll have to sustain through self promotion. When our promotion comes from God, He sustains it.

Whatever you gain through self promotion you'll have to sustain through self promotion. When our promotion comes from God, He sustains it.



At the end of the day you gotta feel some way. So why not feel unbeatable? Why not feel untouchable.

At the end of the day you gotta feel some way. So why not feel unbeatable? Why not feel untouchable.



I solemnly swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to the Queen when she pays her income tax.

I solemnly swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to the Queen when she pays her income tax.



Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.



I don't pay attention to sales because it's not about that for me. It's about the music. Music is all I have.

I don't pay attention to sales because it's not about that for me. It's about the music. Music is all I have.



I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.



The book of Revelation says that we no longer need the sun or the moon, for Christ is the light of the world.

The book of Revelation says that we no longer need the sun or the moon, for Christ is the light of the world.



Shame is pride's cloak.

Shame is pride's cloak.



In the last analysis, then, we believe that we all know and think about and talk about the same world because we believe our PERCEPTS are possessed by us in common

In the last analysis, then, we believe that we all know and think about and talk about the same world because we believe our PERCEPTS are possessed by us in common




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