4/ The majority of people have nothing better to think about than themselves. They spend their lives projecting themselves into every bit of the past, present and future. Like any addiction, it is a vicious circle that ends up destroying the individual's life.
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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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The ego is a fickle beast. Tempting us at every turn for momentary pleasures that never relieve the underlying suffering
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.This point here will be where the seeds of true decentralized biz/rev models sprout; but only when we can imagine them by first removing ourselves from the solution. We’re not there yet.
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