"I see." said the blind man

Do you want to understand?

The whole world is one of your eyes, the body produced by your parents is a cataract.

All ordinary people ignore the indestructible, marvelously clear, unfailingly mirroring eye, and cling fast to the dust cataract produced by the relationship of their father and mother.

Therefore they take illusions for realities, and grasp at reflections as the physical forms themselves.

P'u-An

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A human being is part of the whole, called by us ‘Universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

Einstein

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Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.

Gal 6:7

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Always know, sometimes think it’s me,
But you know I know when it's a dream.
I think a "No" will be a "Yes," but it’s all wrong.
That is, I think I disagree.

Lennon/McCartney

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However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names.

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.

Things do not change, we change.

Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

God will see that you do want society.

Thoreau

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That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

Abraham Lincoln

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If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words.

I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

Isaac Asimov

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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur