5/ This is the disease of the self-conscious mind: Create a story about your experience and think of yourself as the actor in that story. Proceed to think about, analyze, and judge that perception of yourself (which you yourself created) as if it were yourself.
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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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Ironically, being your true self might actually be same as losing yourself. Isn't it?
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Yes, the saying "you have to first lose yourself in order to find yourself" is apt here, and has been expressed in many ways across literature, art, spiritual practices etc.
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Truly the one way of thinking in which there is no regret, because whatever one did was the truest thing one could have done
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