3/ As long as your thoughts revolve around yourself you have understood nothing. You might have a lot in years or experience, but what you have lived was of little consequence.
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14/ Reality goes on perfectly fine without you having to project an idea of yourself onto it. It is unnecessary. This is the meaning of the Zen proverb 'Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.'
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15/ The wonderful thing is that once you catch your mind in the old habit of creating a self, and drop it, you are instantly freed to engage with life, reality and the moment as it occurs. In that sense only can you then feel, and be, your 'true self'.
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16/ Shunryu Suzuki had this wonderful quote "The world is its own magic". And it truly is. But if you are addicted to a fantasy and have conditioned the mind to be divided and to neurotically have to refer to it, you stand to miss it.
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17/ And that may be said to be what ultimate suffering is : missing life. The only thing that's truly you, and truly yours.
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18 / “Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.” — Henry Miller
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