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It's amazing how desperately we cling to our beliefs. As history shows, the fastest way to reduce otherwise decent people to a state of savagery is by tampering with their belief system. The word for someone who does so is a heretic, and historically the punishments reserved for him are more brutal than any other class of offender.

From Spiritual Enlightenment, the Damndest Thing page 44-5, by Jed McKenna.

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Neither Holy nor Wise

When the mind is at peace,

the world too is at peace.

Nothing real,

nothing absent.

Not holding onto reality,

not getting stuck in the void.

You are neither holy nor wise,

just an ordinary fellow

who has completed his work.

Layman P'ang

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The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

-- Antisthenes 

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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

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In all ten directions of the universe,

there is only one truth.

When we see clearly, 

the great teachings are the same.

What can ever be lost?

What can be attained?

If we attain something,

it was there since the beginning of time.

If we lose something,

it is hiding somewhere near us.

Look: This ball in my pocket:

can you see how priceless it is?

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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild best or a god.

Aristotle

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There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they myths and he only believes them because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought! Moreover, since he is aware, however dimly, that his opinions are not rational, he becomes furious whenever they are disputed.

Bertrand Russell 

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you are the reflection of your surroundings , so choose your surrounding like it makes  you reflect the best of you  

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Beliefs are candles man uses to ward off the surrounding darkness.They are charms we use to hold infinity at bay, to dispel the black cloud that hovers over every head.

Jed McKenna

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It's a fallacy to think you are broken. The truth, actually, is that you are as whole today as you were the day you were born; as you will be the day you die. The real, deep down you is unbreakable. It is only your thoughts that are broken: and you are not your thoughts. Know that you are not the voice in your head - the thinker - but instead you are the one who is aware of it; realise this and you will experience liberation. For as you become aware of your thoughts, so they begin to quieten down. You become rooted in the present moment and it is in the ‘here and now’, that you will know you’re not broken. Be mindful, rather than 'mind full'.

Can't remember where I got this from. Sounds like Tolle though.

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You must not think a man has lived long because he has white hair and wrinkles: he has not lived long, just existed long.

Seneca

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... part of life is realizing you can’t pull everyone along with you. Each man is his own man, and not every man is inspired by your cause, no matter how amazing you think it is. Find others who are instead of worrying about those who aren’t.

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1 hour ago, Annetta said:

This is fucking hard 

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Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.

The Hua Hu Ching

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The students ask me for a fish, and I hand them a worm. They may not be thrilled with the worm, but that's the only way it's going to work. On this path you fight for every step. No one goes with you and no one can do it for you. It cannot be otherwise.

Quote by Jed McKenna about Enlightenment from Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damndest Thing page 223.