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There are numerous sidetracks which lead to a distorted ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques.

—Chogyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

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Those who justify themselves do not convince. To know truth one must get rid of knowledge; nothing is more powerful and creative than emptiness.

—Laozi

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It's a kind of test, Mary, and it's the only kind that amounts to anything. When something rotten like this happens, then you have your choice. You start to really be alive, or you start to die. That's all.

—James Agee A Death In The Family

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Dare we open our doors to the source of our being? What are flesh and bones for?

—Paul Reps

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There is only one thing pain is good for. It teaches you to love. God bless pain.

—Joey Goldfarb

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You must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

—Samuel Beckett

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The finest sensibilities of the age are convulsed with pain. That means a change is at hand.

—Leonard Cohen

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There is something about women, they like to talk, and they think that they get to know what a man is thinking by talking, like they get to know a man that way and that's a laugh, ain't it . . . when actually a man don't even know hisself . . .

—Albert Henry DeSalvo (The Boston Strangler)

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. . . the more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.

—St. Catherine of Siena, 1370 A.D.

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Personally, I find what one might term the "post-act" reformers the hardest to bear, as sated, they condemn the means by which they achieved satiation — prostitution and its instrument, yourself, abjuring you to give it up before it's too late, a nice girl like you.

—anonymous streetwalker In Their Own Behalf, by Charles McCaghy, James Skipper, Jr., and Mark Lefton

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I learned one thing.

'What?'

Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.

—Ernest Hemingway A Moveable Feast

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You are not stuck in time like a fly in a closed bottle, whose wings are therefore useless. You cannot trust your physical senses to give you a true picture of reality. They are lovely liars, with such a fantastic tale to tell that you believe it without question.

—Jane Roberts, Seth Speaks

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translucent time is closing up its moments/ and ripens inwards, throwing out its roots,/ it grows within me, occupies me wholly,/ its foliage flings me out deliriously,/ my thoughts are just its evanescent birds,/ its quicksilver circulating through my veins,/ tree of mind, fruits the flavor of time,/ oh life that may be lived and that now lived,/ time turning forward with a deep sea roar/ and falling back without a sideways glance,/ that which has been was not but is now being/ and silently flows onward, onward to/ another moment that evaporates . . .

—Octavio Paz, Sunstone

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In his maturity the Star Maker conceived many strange forms of time. For instance, some of the later creations were designed with two or more temporal dimensions, and the lives of the creatures were temporal sequences in one or other dimension of the temporal "area" or "volume." These beings experienced their cosmos in a very odd manner. Living for a brief period along one dimension, each perceived at every moment of its life a simultaneous vista which, though of course fragmentary and obscure, was actually a view of a whole unique "transverse" cosmical evolution in the other dimension . . . In other creations a creature was given only one life, but this was a "zig-zag" line, alternating from one temporal dimension to another according to the quality of the choices that the creature made. Strong or moral choices led in one temporal direction, weak or immoral choices in another. In one inconceivably complex cosmos, whenever a creature was faced with several possible courses of action, it took them all, thereby creating many distinct temporal dimensions and distinct histories of the cosmos. Since in every evolutionary sequence of the cosmos there were very many creatures, and each was constantly faced with many possible courses, and the combinations of all their courses were innumerable, an infinity of distinct universes exfoliated from every moment of every temporal sequence in this cosmos.

—Olaf Stapledon, Starmaker

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time. And not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections; not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

—Meister Eckhart

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