The journey itself is my home.

~Matsuo Bash
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My religion is to live - and die - without regret.

~Milarepa
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All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

~Nagarjuna
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It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.

~Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

~Omar Khayyam
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From the beginning, truth is clear. Poised in silence, I observe the forms of integration and disintegration. One who is not attached to "form" need not be "reformed." The water is emerald, the mountain is indigo, and I see that which is creating and that which is destroying.

~The Ten Bulls of Zen
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During the civil wars in feudal Japan, an invading army would quickly sweep into a town and take control. In one particular village, everyone fled just before the army arrived - everyone except the Zen master.

Curious about this old fellow, the general went to the temple to see for himself what kind of man this master was. When he wasn't treated with the deference and submissiveness to which he was accustomed, the general burst into anger.
"You fool," he shouted as he reached for his sword, "don't you realize you are standing before a man who could run you through without blinking an eye!"

But despite the threat, the master seemed unmoved.
"And do you realize," the master replied calmly, "that you are standing before a man who can be run through without blinking an eye?"

~Zen Story
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Inside my gate, a thousand sages do not know me. The beauty of my garden is invisible. Why should one search for the footprints of the patriarchs? I go to the market place with my wine bottle and return home with my staff. I visit the wineshop and the market, and everyone I look upon becomes enlightened.

~The Ten Bulls of Zen
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A distraught man approached the Zen master.
"Please, Master, I feel lost, desperate. I don't know who I am. Please, show me my true self!"
But the teacher just looked away without responding.
The man began to plead and beg, but still the master gave no reply.
Finally giving up in frustration, the man turned to leave.
At that moment the master called out to him by name.
"Yes!" the man said as he spun back around.
"There it is!" exclaimed the master.

~Zen Story
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A path is made by walking on it.

~Zhuangzi
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The only thing that is constant is Change.

~Heraclitus
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The best fighter is never angry.

~Lao Tzu
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If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the sea of delusion.

~Linji Yixuan
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If the wine drinker has a deep gentleness in him,he will show that when drunk.But if he has hidden anger and arrogance,those appear.

~Rumi
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The ego wants to want, more than it wants to have.

~Eckhart Tolle
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The human condition: lost in thought.

~Eckhart Tolle
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It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.

~OSHO
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Vast emptiness, nothing holy.

~Bodhidharma
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Forgiveness separates the dreamer from the evil dream and thus releases him.

~A Course In Miracles
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It is the sharing of the evil dreams of hate and malice, bitterness and death, of sin and suffering and pain and loss, that makes them real. Unshared, they are perceived as meaningless. The fear is gone from them because you did not give them your support. Where fear has gone, there love must come because there are but these alternatives. Where one appears, the other disappears. And which you share becomes the only one you have. You have the one which you accept, because it is the only one you wish to have.

~A Course In Miracles
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Stop thinking, and end your problems.What difference between yes and no?What difference between success and failure?Must you value what others value,avoid what others avoid?How ridiculous!Other people are excited,as though they were at a parade.I alone don't care,I alone am expressionless,like an infant before it can smile.Other people have what they need;I alone possess nothing.I alone drift about,like someone without a home.I am like an idiot, my mind is so empty.Other people are bright;I alone am dark.Other people are sharp;I alone am dull.Other people have purpose;I alone don't know.I drift like a wave on the ocean,I blow as aimless as the wind.

~Lao Tzu
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