"Saints declared themselves as abject sinners as their aspirations to be saintly are motivated by the worse of sins, spiritual pride, the desire to admire oneself as a supreme success in the art of love and unselfishness."
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"Though playing is trivial as in playing with toys, it is also sincere, when playing an instrument. To want love to be sincere is better than to want it to be serious."
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"Anyone who brags about knowing this doesn't understand it and is a veiled ego using it in the game of spiritual one-upmanship."
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"It is also deeply offensive to those who do not understand and who honestly believe themselves to be lonely spirits as you've created an in/out dynamic. "You're not good enough to be 'in', follow my teachings and you will be."
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"Sages are not models of virtue, they come with all their human flaws. But involved as you may be in conflicts, you can no longer see the enemy as something to be eliminated but a partner in a game."
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"This will give you the priceless ability to contain conflicts and the willingness to compromise and adapt. This "honor among thieves" is far less dangerous than those who do not recognize the they are thieves."
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"Life must be lived as a game --- must not as a command, but as a requirement, for a life forced to be lived is not a life. To love your enemies is to love them as enemies."
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"To goal of action is always contemplation --- knowing and being rather than seeking and becoming. As it is, we are gulping down undigested experiences as fast as we can stuff them in. This infinite hunger for an infinite future."
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"To say something is to define and limit, to set boundaries, to compare and contrast. But just as no one should seek to find news in a dictionary, no one should use speaking and thinking to find out what cannot be spoken or thought. "
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""What is everything?" has no meaning, even though it is profound, for it cannot be answered. Words are too slow and clumsy to describe how we think and how we exist, yet we still know how to think, how to walk, how to see, etc..."
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"As long as you try to grasp IT, you imply that IT is not really yourself. We are the world looking at itself and forgetting that it is ourselves."
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