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“Let’s suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream that you wanted to dream, and that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of dreams, or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fufill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could concieve. And after several nights, of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say “Well, that was pretty great. But now let’s have a surprise. Let’s have a dream which isn’t under control. Where something is gonna happen to me that I don’t know what it’s gonna be.” And you would dig that and come out of that and say “Wow, that was a close shave, wasn’t it?”. And then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today.”

Alan Watts

“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

Epictetus

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“You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

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“Try to acquire the weird practice of savouring your mistakes, delighting in uncovering the strange quirks that led you astray.”

Daniel Dennet (Seven Tools for Thinking)

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“Time and space are not conditions in which we live,

but modes by which we think.”

Albert Einstein

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“Life is infinitely more than your or my obtuse theory about it.”

Mindwalk (1990)

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“You get so good at using your space suit that you can’t differentiate yourself from your space suit anymore.

You think you’re your space suit.”

Ram Dass

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“With this body, you have the experience of time, taste, smell, touch — the taste of otherness, of beauty. 
But I want you to come deeper in, beyond the field of phenomena. Your attention was going out through the senses.
Now we press the reverse button.
Make a U-turn and come inside as far as you can go but carry nothing with you.
Now, behind the facade of the body, go past emotions, feelings, thoughts. 
Dive deeper and deeper inside, bypassing everything … 
family, education, culture, conditioning, self-image.
Very good. Now come even more inside…
Silence.
Still, come past silence, come in more.
Bring your attention back to confirm the place beyond which you cannot go. Be here.
And now what happens….
Don’t just look with eyes, look with heart also.
Look with the fullness of yourself.
‘Here there is Nothing,’ you say!
And I ask: Is there anything behind nothing?
What perceives nothing itself?
Not easy questions, but they are our questions.
The human being must go through one door after another, and each and every door closes behind him until he comes here.
Now you are here… Inside the inside itself.
You are this nothingness itself experiencing itself beyond duality.
Rare is a human being who allows himself to come so purely back to base.
Not base camp … Just Base…”

Mooji

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There is no past. The past is a ruthless illusion that creates ruthless human beings. However there is Unity. This Unity can be observed as well as one can become, embody, and express this Unity. That is only if one realizes not only this reality of Unity, but also the nature of the past as a ruthless illusion, which projects forward a ruthless, ever-unapproachable future. 

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“There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be, but we have done various things over intellectual history to slowly correct some of our misapprehensions.”

Douglas Adams

“I’m attracted to the idea of drowning. Or rather the idea of jumping off and being enveloped by something, not bad or good, just enveloping. When I was a kid, I had this moment when I got under the water, lying on the pool floor, and I felt I could breathe. I’ve been trying to recreate that feeling ever since.”

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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

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You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life,

but by realizing who you are at the deepest level

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Mind is a virtual space that’s always flirting with virtual things.

This is why you remain unsatisfied, unsatisfiable.

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“No particular thought can be mind’s natural state, only silence. Not the idea of silence, but silence itself. When the mind is in its natural state, it reverts to silence spontaneously after every experience, or, rather, every experience happens against the background of silence. It has nothing to do with effort. Just turn away, look between the thoughts, rather than at the thoughts. When you happen to walk in a crowd, you do not fight every man you meet, you just find your way between. When you fight, you invite a fight. But when you do not resist, you meet no resistance. When you refuse to play the game, you are out of it.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

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