The Luccaph of Bill Chapko
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Truth is what you see when you wake up.
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Every civilization will be judged by how well they leave their children alone and how much they enjoy them. All the rest is merely making believe you live forever.
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Popularity and truth have a very strange relationship.
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Not the thrill of "winning the lottery" but the happiness of riding your wild and noble spirit.
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Fate is your body.
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Awareness is the world's mystical experience.
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If anything is going to "save humanity" it won't be a new idea or a new vision but a new way of dancing.
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We create our own anxiety-release-joy cycles to substitute for the world's which we can't control.
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Drop out of videoland . . . there's a world to see.
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Capitalism is a nervous disease and Communism is a bad dream but luckily great socio-politico-economic systems have little relation to lucid happiness.
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My economics - I define wealth as time for one's spirit to roam. The only increase in wealth in the past 80 years has been the French 35 hour work-week law.
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The best freedom is moving one's fingers.
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Look at someone who never laughs. Is this serious person deep ? No, very superficial. Laughter deepens life.
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To accept everything, including my revolt.
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Don't confuse sane with same.
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Only the poorest can be richest in heart. Only the richest can be poorest in heart.
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The world will go on without me. The world will not go on without me.
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Nature is inhuman. We are nature. We are inhuman.
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The greatest power in the universe, truly infinite, is the 'butterfly effect'. Whether you wave your hand towards the right or the left will totally change, through the capriciousness of the winner of conception, the faces of every person on earth 500 years from now and into eternity. Here infinite power meets infinite laughter - for this power is infinitely useless.
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It is easy to forget the best in oneself. An environment of man-made objects confuses and distracts.
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The world presents meaning and then is absurd and then back again. It is nearly impossible to know which is which or when, no less why; but our happiness shines through.
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All eternity was made for this moment but this moment has no purpose at all.
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We are driven by deep childhood promises. Adult promises are not deep, they're manipulative.
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Excess hides.
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At a certain point, our life of entertainment, however good, bores us, and we turn towards our call.
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The world is always correct and true, almost by definition. The only falsehoods are concept systems of the world.
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There is no mirror image of me.
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You can't make the world better, you can only make it look better - and Fakeland has it's own special distress and pain.
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The subconscious works best when we are not conscious of it.
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The amount of happiness and suffering is always exactly the same, but the color is always different.
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Intelligence is "to read between the lines". Stupidity is to memorize and spit back the lines.
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The more the economy produces the more we need. We truly become weaker and weaker.
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Existence is deep, essence is shallow.
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Double waste: you pay for advertising; you pay for the need it creates.
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Your hate ties you to them.
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The question is: Can you face life honestly and still love it? No Afterlife, no God, no Nation, no Leader, no Guru, no Dream, no Hope, no Goal... The answer is: More than ever ... but with a different color, a different depth, a different tone.
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My home is now.
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Cultures based on money wish us to pursue happiness, not to attain it.
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Perfection excludes laughter.
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December day, Summer smells, Dizzy head.
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(40 or 75 yrs ?) Life is infinitely short.
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Consciousness is ALWAYS wrong; and as such it shines best in laughter.
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The value of ideas is to hide the rich working of the unconscious.
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Put the wisdom back into philosophy!
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Sunlight streaming Across a dusty shelf; Tiny shadows.
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TV is a dream. School is a dream. Books and newspapers are dreams. So much of our daily thoughts and conversation are dreams. What is not a dream? The sky. The touch of cool stone. A baby's smile. Faint stirrings within ones spirit.
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Everything dies. Not only people, cultures and civilizations but even our science will someday die.
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Society is a poor mother and father.
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Science is a new kind of religion. It doesn't say it's a religion, it says it's truth. But that is the way with all past and present religions.
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My "life's goal" and my pride - to be the being who has laughed most at the world.
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The world is always perfect, but we will never know how it is perfect.
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The world is a constant flow from happiness to suffering to happiness to suffering. Within happiness is the light of suffering. Within suffering, that of happiness. Peace, the domain of saints, rocks and the dead, has neither. The dance continues forever.
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Science is not a search for truth but an attempt to coerce people to a certain behavior.
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Imagine a world where you live forever. No babies. No little boys. No girls. Just huge populations of 500-1000 year-olds driving around in artificial life-support machines.
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Dreams are a mixture of the human and the inhuman.
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I like the scientist's dry discipline but distrust his passionate faith.
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We have an unconscious psychic communication with humanity, near and far. The conscious verbal human communication is always an internal dialogue, posing as external.
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The heart of each old person was once that of a baby and the years of accumulated crust hides but does not change that original heart.
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The blind do not see black, they touch, hear, taste and smell.
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If you can't give up your freedom, then you never had it.
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What? Economic life equals spiritual life?
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Fake people and cultures need to be exposed, otherwise you get taken for a long ride.
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Dogmatism, positive thinking - dancing on one leg.
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No matter how you try you can't get out of this world.
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A certain humility is needed to enjoy kids. We don't notice they are richer than us.
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Freedom ? No limits ? You may enter areas where you are free from previous limits. There may be an infinite variety of limits but there are always limits. "No limits" equals death.
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Knowledge is not an edifice but a wandering through higher views. (seeing on a ledge?)
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Modern commercial life - there are a thousand distractions in a thousand directions away from your center but only one frightening direction towards it.
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I am cynical and distrustful about dreaming people, not about life.
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Intelligence is non-verbal. The world is illogical.
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Freedom too often is a call to get people to work (i.e. slave) harder.
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School contains "numb-ers".
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As my son is not me, myself a moment ago is not me.
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The value of Christianity is that you can be cruel with a good conscience.
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In mountain forests walking is dancing. On pavement, marching.
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People don't want to know truth - they want to live forever.
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Primarily hopeful activity is a social courtesy and pleasure. It can be shared. But our deeper sight, our deeper movement is slow, unique, nonverbal, chaotic and unsharable. Woe to those who expect one to touch the other.
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There is a well within each of us which we rarely draw upon. Its depth is our center and its surface is the world.
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Compare these two philosophies : 1) The best things in life are free. 2) The best things in life cost money.
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What is our constant thought and drive - that we don't believe we're going to die.
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Your death makes possible an infinite amount of births.
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Simple happiness is counter-productive.
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Utopia and children don't mix; and I'm for children.
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In the West our fundamental philosophy is - that of "continuous interference".
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We are confused and mesmerized by thousands of little hopes.
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"Imagine a small terrified animal cornered by it's beast of prey. That animal is the human race." "But our reasoning power will save us." "Ah, THAT is the beast of prey."
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The call to reason is merely a fogging up of questionable fundamental assumptions.
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School: 12 years in a chair looking at a cultural commercial.
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Social fears are the hidden rulers.
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Science has nothing to do with truth. It's a model toy factory.
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Truth is retrograde. The newborn sees best.
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Emerson: Every wall is a door. Americans: Every wall should have a door.
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Mahayana Buddhism is totally wrong. For the free one, the enlightened one, are needed enormous, unfree, dark masses.
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Marriage is dangerous. It allows the possibility of getting close to someone.
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You have the freedom to choose the color of your slavery.
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The face of this land need only last a lifetime for it to be eternity.
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Happy people attract unhappy people. Soon everybody is unhappy.
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"Don't worry, be happy" ? Hope and worry are intertwined. Don't hope, be happy.
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Race never-ending, nerves raw edged, blue sea, white clouds.
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Thought and knowledge are believed to be more "real" than fantasy but they are merely a poorer type of entertainment. Logic and math? Those timid, perfect, orderly ghosts? At best they hum and churn and give us some new toys.
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The toys of science replace physical suffering with nervous mental and emotional suffering.
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Distrust anyone whose "truth" coincides with making a living. (e.g. professionals and other types of salesmen)
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The English were the first to substitute the state for a mother.
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Mind-chatter? It's to keep yourself company.
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Tell me your thought as best and briefly as you can, for I have much to see and little time.
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Science breeds objects.
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School is a bad habit.
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Infinities- If the universe is infinitely large then there are infinite me's and you's: a slight feeling of nausea growing larger.
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Words lie.
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Pain is a splint.
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A little boy's heart is greater than all their philanthropy and charity.
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This world I see and travel through is totally mine.
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The gods go in and out of existence, like moonlight flickering on the waves.
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All this splitting up into "facts". Assigning areas of expertise. Honoring and reprimanding each other. "Making the world a little better." Psychologically and socially it fills life with "purposeful" activity. Building walls, mental and muscular, against the terrible beauty of existence.
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You're free to be anything you want? You're free to be one thing, all the rest you have to leave behind.
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The species will die as surely as the individual.
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America is a cultural bubble.
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The wonder of existence is infinite.
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Mind and death are particle and anti-particle. They can't get close to each other without mutual annihilation.
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Every person has a unique color, never before seen, forever changing.
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Scientists are control-happy.
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Fate feels deeper than choice.
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The noble quest for truth has been whittled down to the ordering of tiny facts. Before, truth hinted at wisdom. Today our highest wisdom is to control.
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Color is an amazing phenomenon. I have never once believed it was inside my head. I soak it up like a sponge. I drink it like water.
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The stingy anemic one-god movement (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) is closely aligned with the stingy no-god movement (Science, Buddhism, Zen, Taoism) Let's be generous - let's allow many gods, chaoticly and happily floating about. Their mouthpiece ? Inspired aphorisms.
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A baby sees. For us there is a flitting back and forth between a sight and our concept of it.
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Learning is the opposite of seeing. What you learn about something prevents you from seeing it.
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Books? Intelligence only happens with eyes open. The rest is chatter.
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Advertising raises our standards of living. It stimulates us to want more than we need.
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Italy - the land of family opportunities.
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Our children don't learn from us and we don't learn from them. They give us something else: play, spontaneity, assertiveness, expression, clear-sightedness. From our infants: the ability to look, simplicity, purity. We give them our overcomings, our freedom, our happiness. These can neither be written down nor tested. They are the fruits of the interplay of child and parent.
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Our desire says, "A computer is logic incarnate."
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Either the world is crazy or humans are crazy. It's saner to believe the latter.
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Our most important knowledge we don't learn, we seek it out. Learning, being a form of coercion, is best done in school.
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Awareness is being awake. Thinking is dreaming.
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Science is a dead-end. It only plays with objects. It doesn't play with subjects.
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Gab philosophy. (German-American-British)
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A philosopher should not create a world to distract us, but help us to see and live happily in the one world we all share. Hence I distrust thick books.
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We swim in a sea of dreams, with frequent microsecond wakeups.
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"What is the meaning of life?" is equivalent to asking "what must I do to live forever."
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They spend half their life in school learning how to manipulate the world and the other half manipulating it. Leave the world alone !
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You don't live forever, but your life fills up eternity.
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Death has enough negativity for a whole lifetime of joy and wonder.
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TV's don't breathe.
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With a career you're a cog in a machine. As a father you watch a world unfold.
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"Existence is all you've got."
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A mystic experience is possible, but only while you are alive.
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Democracy? Mass culture ? The masses are certainly a reality, but that doesn't mean they are in contact with reality.
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Can we live cheerfully, exuberantly, passionately, without the lie of a bright hopeful future? Perhaps the world has never seen such cheerful exuberance.
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What is by far the most dangerous life for a free spirit? To have a family. Live dangerously!
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The moment you step into a dialogue, you've accepted a value system.
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There is no mind, no "authority", no humanity, no culture, no society - just head dancing and a small, mundane, changing psychic link to various groups of people.
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My solution to modern times : plug your ears up.
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Freedom of the press, academic freedom, scientific inquiry: many small truths hide a big lie or two.
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Technology is life's way of making a species weaker.
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In modern democracies power goes to the best liar.
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"Remember, what ever you do, do it effortlessly."
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Rely on the verbal culture of a sick animal? Rather, rely on our billion year heritage.
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My whimsical goal - to lure, entice and tickle the highest, happiest spirits away from the rabble and their rousers.
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Humanity is a type of dinosaur. Instead of a big body it has a big head. It will probably dominate for 100 million years before something fresh comes on the earth.
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Neither by fighting nor analyzing nor yelling at, can you wake up from the dream.
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Juries - 12 yokels, perhaps uncorrupted, but far from the truth.
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Buddhists are atheists. I realized what God is like (this powerful knowing being hovering above me) and I became nauseous. Fear? Yes, I'm afraid this huge "being" will slip and fall on me. I cannot conceive of a knowing being outside of the organic.
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The competitive spirit - American life is just one big boot camp, interspersed by drunken binges.
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The sociability of the human animal makes him the loneliest.
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Modern philosophers are "idea scientists and scholars". Love of wisdom requires simple statements and includes long stretches of silence.
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Worrying is stupid. It always comes out for the worst.
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As physical tears clean our eyes, emotional tears clean our soul. Both must dry to see well again.
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If you daily cover your emotions and don't let them breath, they begin to stink.
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Everything that exists is good and everything that does not exist is bad.
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Any statement is at best a description of it's author/authors. All of science only tells us about a group of conspiring scientists. Is it worth listening to people talk about themselves?
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Democracy is a way to get people to work harder.
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Vulnerability is the gateway to strength.
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Self-awareness is good. Analyzing and doing something about it is the problem.
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To believe in fate is difficult - in the end it amounts to believing in yourself.
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Others are real, often too real, but only I exist.
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A happy person is a wise person.
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What amazing drive we have - to keep working despite illness and its gift of rest.
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The inductive method is not a proof but a frequently fulfilled hope. With the study of humans it is just a hope.
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The "psychic world" receives its "life" from life - i.e. it is alive. If we were all to die then the silence would be total.
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In cursing the world we only curse ourself.
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Society is a place that makes madness look sane.
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How much energy we spend calming fears!
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We sacrifice time and intimacy with our children for the "morals of society", the "good of their future", and various other fantasies.
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Great technological, sociological, even psychological "revolutions" change us much less than we think. Real change passes from parent to child, and back again.
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An aphorist seeks inspiration from the events and moods of his days, as if they were destined for him.
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Whole books can sometimes be reduced to one or two statements. The good will in an aphorism is that if you reject it you haven't wasted allot of time.
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An aphorism has similarities to a painting. In a relatively small space, it gives a self-contained, whole image which seeks an impact on the soul.
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The best thoughts come not during long periods of contemplation or laborious thinking but as calm respites in the midst of living.
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I look for what is special in each day. I always find myself.
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Religion is a place where groups practice lying.
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With the enormous creative energy spent on these brilliant weapons I fear they will be used not out of hatred or aggression or defense but out of curiosity.
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Neither for survival nor happiness do we need all these things. They are merely stimulation for an dis-eased nervous system.
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The body seeks an illness in order to deepen itself.
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The aggressive believer - what he doesn't find he makes.
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Computers will reveal the limits of science.
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The "eternal truth of mathematics" is based on wishful thinking - there are no two things that are equal. Our categories are for convenience and control, not truth.
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One of the saddest wastes of family energy: worrying about and trying to enforce what, how much and when children eat.
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Descartes cogito is a symptom not a foundation.
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Subconscious = joking gods ?
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Scientists replace the organic with the mechanical
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Fakedom.
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You understand a category (state, concept) by its opposite.
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How can so many people be so wrong ?
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Repeating guilt is sick pleasure.
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Let me first hear your few best aphorisms, those you want written on your gravestone.
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America is a theatocracy. Rule of the theatrical.
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America's historic mission is to prove that you can't make the world better.
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The world has thousands of colors. Americans see only red, white and blue. The rest they analyze with spectrographs.
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The laughing instinct is the natural counter to our "seriousness" instinct. Animals neither laugh nor take things seriously.
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Is there life outside of the worlds of rabble and their rousers?
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More important than verbal, math and emotional intelligence is stomach intelligence.
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Music is the opposite of frustration.
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Logic doesn't exist.
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A nice cat? Impossible. "Nice" means unanimal-like.
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"I will love you forever" is something you say right before you die.
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40,000 tiny truths and 1 big lie.
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Science is an experiment.
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Every person is a new life form, a potentially new species.
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Nietzsche was lucky to be unrecognized in his own lifetime. My suspicion is he went crazy (willed it?) because fame was approaching. A Nietzsche today would be immediately catapulted to fame and fad by some hungry newspaper or publisher. "A revolution !" No, let's hide ourselves.
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Aphorisms - not to convince but to point.
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Pure science becomes a world of illusion like all the other mind games.
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To be noble means to connect to the world not to mere humanity.
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Knowledge does not refer to world. It is a symptom of a change in the world, specifically a change in the human species.
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Americans justify their craziness by claiming most advanced nation status. It's not a justification, it's a warning.
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Conversation is an attempt to give solidity to your madness.
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"Taste freedom! Denationalize yourself!"
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Play the society game... society is dangerous...avoid its mediocrity trap...steal from it... pick its fruit at night...
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Society is a fad-factory.
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Religion serves those who can't turn death's terror into vitality.
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If you want power, breathe. If you want knowledge, look.
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Our age of reason denies a very unreasonable event - death. And thereby it denies us.
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Modern philosophy snuggles up to science.
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Death enlivens.
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It never ceased to amaze him: that he was alive!
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Child and parent, brother and sister, fight and forget, play and peeve, heal and hurt, help and hinder, hug and hate - heaven and hell - I'd do it again and again and again.
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Usually, the worst stress comes of our own making. How much of this is entertainment? How much of our suffering is a drive downward to search out our depths? White clouds drifting across a blue sky save me.
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The Mediterranean sea has a clarity which refreshes.
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Every thought is a withdrawal.
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Children don't learn to walk.
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Flashes and flushes of my own importance.
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There are times when demands on my energy come in volleys and I need the skills of a juggler. When my strength is highest this juggling has a grace and ease and I feel a god within me.
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The wealth of a nation is the sum total of the free time and equilibrium of it's citizens.
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h The silence of falling snow.
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Eternal recurrence of me? This is only possible if I am the world.
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Ambition is running away from oneself.
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How do you deal with someone who believes in eternal life?
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Strength is having an invisible body. (awake, seeing, out there, no chatter no pain, little pulling emotion)
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Aphorisms are meant to tickle the subconscious.
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You can not take the same photograph twice.
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Nazis - idiots who pushed a button.
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Man is the chattering animal.
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I define wealth as time for one's spirit to roam. But the only spirit they believe is that "eternal spirit", one's soul. Well I define soul as a dead spirit. It needs no time to roam.
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But it is not a fact - in the solid way you imagine - it is just words.
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Inspire yourself - breathe in.
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With balance you can dance, without it you fall down or tie yourself to a post.
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Suppose the body, in order to deepen itself, to enrich life, not merely succumbs to but seeks out illness. Would not modern medicine be a bad joke?
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The simple pleasures are best. They live near the most sublime thoughts.
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For every inspiring day there is an expiring day. The spirits go in and the spirits go out.
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Billboards put holes in the earth and sky.
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The trees in the forest struggle with each other to reach and capture a share of the sun - so too with gods and the human spirit.
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Am I challenging you to be awake or giving you more dream material?
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Aphorisms are animals to ride for a while.
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"It's probably like this." If the physicists can do it so can I.
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Word-thieves! They've robbed philosophy, intelligence, ...
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American fleedom. The land of the flee.
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A society should not be a ceiling but a roof.
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I would only believe in a God about which nothing could be said. In the end it would be equivalent to a blessing, sometimes heartrending, on all of life and all the world.
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The Greeks must have decided on the four elements while sunbathing on the beach. Sand, wind, sun and sea - what more does the world need?
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When the gods abandon a species, it's members are allowed to start believing in a God. Only to those few who become Godless will the gods return.
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h A red ribbon of light wedged between darkening sea and sky greets me at the end of a day's work and pain. To be healed by beauty is the world's gift to us.
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The gods work in mysterious ways - it's a mystery even to themselves.
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We modern intellectual consumers run away from the mysteries of life - birth, childhood, eating, (dreams,) sex, parenting, old age, death.
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God bless America ? God is taking America for a ride.
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The word three describes not what is out there but only with reference to humans
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A thousand voices speak in us out of the past - "do what I say and you will live forever".
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The only thing real about them is the "plastic".
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r The values of Fakelandia. ??? "Whatever you do, don't fake it." "No, keep faking till you believe you're real."
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People on anti-depressants are depressed.
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Nobody ever wins. Nobody ever loses.
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As a son rebels from his father, a man rebels from his species.
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What they mean by intelligence : efficient concept manipulation.
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Thought is a great enduring cloud that hides the world.
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College - breeding-ground for rigid minds and bodies.
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A highly energetic organism compared to idiot animals? Thought? Speech? Creativity? How much do we eat? If animals have none of this, where does their energy go? My proposal - knowing existence a hundred times more powerfully than a zen master does or a yogi does. Sharply aware without words. Continuously touched by existence. Plants, dirt, rocks all infinitely more in tune. Man is a nervous chatterbox and nothing else. Conquering the world means nothing. In no way does it put man on a higher level. In no way will it save him from his beast of prey - thought.
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Joy without fear? That's just a memory of joy.
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Aphorisms - philosophical guerilla warfare. Attack and hide. (philosophical terrorism?)
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Philosophers? Lovers of wisdom? Higher men? No, a gabbers union.
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If there is eternal reoccurrence then there is just one "most-overman".
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To Nietzsche - your overman is in the end true but laughable - my overman laughs.
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Camus' vision of tragedy is the only true home we have. Every happy-ending morality movie saps our vital energies. It doesn't reflect our fate, our possibility for power and joy. Which is, glorious life - incredibly absurd and terrorizing end.
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There is no road to truth - truth is always immediately near (available).
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Figure out the essence of American life? Replace the commonly used word, 'active' with 'nervous'.
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There is only one success - conception. There is only one failure - death.
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The depth of American culture can be found in the spirit and wisdom of Ronald McDonald.
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Natural healing? No, leave-it-alone healing.
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Eskimos have 14 different words for types and shades of snow. Us moderns should have 14 different words for types and shades of lies, and this lack is probably the biggest lie.
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Humanity is developing a kind of "head being", unbreathing, linked to other "head beings", dreaming of a sterile immortality.
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Americans don't have a home - they have an efficient launchpad for the active life.
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"Identity crisis resolved - I am what I pretend to be."
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Greece was fruitful because it's afterlife was so gloomy. A terrifying zero afterlife ? The most fruitful yet ?
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Satori ? You can't wake up if you don't sleep.
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Was Jesus humble?
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Nothing has changed - except that never before in history have humans been such fools.
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There is only nonverbal reality. Truth, including scientific, is always transmitted with words and words always lie.
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We romanticize a country as we do a beautiful body - having a simple form and not a mass of flowing, conflicting drives.
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Yin-yang balance is effortless. Willful effort destroys balance outside that effort.
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Logic is human talk, not the silent world.
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Realize your inhuman potential !!
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Modern morality - Christianity without the fairy tales.
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What! If it can't be put into words it doesn't exist?
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Fleedom has its corollary: if we're not high all the time something must be wrong.
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Authority has a God-like flavor to it.
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Song lyrics - "Eternity is a long time to wait, aren't we glad we're dead."
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If one word existed, we would have God. Unfortunately...
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We want a delicious sweet peace that would seem to last forever? How close have we been to a crushing terror? Can we succumb to it? How much of our living in our head, our thought, is to sabotage both of these?
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Isn't this the waste of time - all this busy nervous hopeful activity?
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We're not a higher animal, just more nervous.
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Truth can be ugly, stupid, even dull. Sometimes you need someone who is not so eloquent to speak it.
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History is impossible. The bodies were different. Greek texts? We only know the bodies of the translators.
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Thinking about death is a waste of time - there's nothing there.
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The are certain cultures, (eg. Irish, Slavic, Neapolitan) which can soak up great riches from sadness.
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Whether rich or poor, consumer buying is a curse.
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Americans are ignorant ... of the rest of the world.
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The present is the only solid "empirical fact" we have.
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The main purpose of society is to indicate stupid (ie. popular) things to avoid. How could we do without it?
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Fame? Think in terms of a hundred thousand years from now.
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If we are the world, the "deep sleep" lasts a second within an immense mother and my "I" returns again and again forever.
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Mobius band has only one side? But nothing has any "sides". There are breaks everywhere and nowhere. "side" is a description about people not about the world..
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Society is a call to cowardice and stupidity.
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The more things look better, the worse they are.
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Science is a source of power over other people, not over nature.
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We feel safer in the memory than the experience.
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Let's give free space to multicolored courages.
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Not thought but morality is the culprit. Morality is the desire for eternal life.
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Every "free spirit" needs an oppressive, stupid weight to sharpen his lightness, his divine laughter. Our time is abundant in these. A few: the nation, "God Bless America"; scientific medicine; Education; science itself; the "job" of raising children.
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American education transforms people into squeaky machines.
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Professionals are a band of little politicians.
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The are no thoughts, only thinking; no dreams, only dreaming; no mind, only head dancing.
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The truth is: happiness and suffering will be forever equal. The false is: more exciting, more moving, more alive.
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Observing excludes categories.
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Observation: It's true that if you can't put it into words we can't talk about it, but talking about it neither proves it's existence nor involves observing it.
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Eternal reoccurrence was Nietzsche's attempt to bless the world.
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Modern history is that of those holding power by convincing you that they give you power. (priests, communists, advertisers and politicians) Life was clearer in the age of slaves.
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Essence doesn't exist.
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All devils dissolve and there remains only life and death.
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In nature there is no New Year, only circles.}
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Most historical movies put modern outlooks into old clothing. They are saying, "there is only one world."
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Don't LOOK deep inside yourself, feel deep inside yourself.
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Science makes things artificial.
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h Ancient fire.
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Avoiding self-torture: Enjoy your dreams but don't believe in them.
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Self-torture: we turn and churn and swirl, faster and deeper and more violent, trying to be free, and the only escape is to disconnect our heart, to end that negative pleasure.
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The purpose of an illness is to change our point of view.
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h All is gray except a distant thunderhead with its face to the orange setting sun.
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Avoiding images of delicious food eases hunger pangs just as avoiding thoughts of delectable catastrophe eases anxiety.
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Relief from tension and worry sometimes comes solely from events. It is strongest then, like a physical wave.
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There are moments when everything in the world is clean.
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Maturity includes ecstasy in, control of, harmony with, acceptance of, freedom from, identity with, pleasure in, calculated use and suspension of, and love for, ones emotions.
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A philosopher circled by life.
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Our thoughts are continually opening and closing circles. In daydreaming this becomes a pleasurable self-entertainment.
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The death penalty is an attempt by the State to be important.
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Religions gain their power from our fear of death. They claim knowledge of an afterlife,the means to affect its nature and quality. Instead, eternal nothingness, forever fixed, rules the nature and quality of our living.
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People talk for themselves. Except for rare instances such as a clear, concise response to a question, or people in love, or a skilled entertainer, words are impositions.
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Our dreams are a psychic vegetable soup. The art of visionary dreaming will not grow in our time. We demand too much control.
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Not cleverness but courage.
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Tickled by existence.
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It's art! They called it Truth to make it more exciting.
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Science as dry art.
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I judge a man by how much nausea he has.
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When you lose morality you gain a sense of wonder.
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Life isn't thrilling? But you want it safe, like in a movie.
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The problem of untouchable background morality.
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Talking is a mental illness.
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We are driven by unknown forces.
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Perhaps the attraction to computers is part of a world thought disease. Thought needs propping up.
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Each deep breath brings anew delight.
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Some people spend most of their lives solving little problems without sometimes entertaining the thought that there are no problems.
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Feelings are expressed more fully with gestures. Whereas words are invisible and may not even exist, gestures are backed with flesh and blood.
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Over-seriousness needs strong medicine - the world of children.
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h After days of clouds and rain, for a few moments the sun breaks through and pours into my room. I am trembling with its intensity, filled with wonder and joy. Then, the room is as before.
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The reason that hermits don't have a family is that they don't want to be interrupted in ecstasy.
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Decisions are often enjoyable when the tempo is quick.
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h At times we long to lose our center and feel our spirit take wing.
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Mathematics is a type of dream world. Because natural phenomenon often follow its roads does not make it real.
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In our world of moneyed knowledge deductive thought is too cheap to be true.
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My muscles act out the e-motions of the internal dialogue. At the end of the day my body is exhausted and aching.
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At times, what a temptation to live in an unknown unpopulated place. Those Vietnam Veterans who live alone in the Alaskan wilderness with snow, wind, trees and haunting memories. I don't pity them, they are among the few who can touch the deep.
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The psychic world is anathema to scientists because it is essentially uncontrollable.
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100 million dollars for a 2 week vacation on a Russian space station. The super-rich get the "peak-experiences" ? But their minds will be buzzing as they look out the porthole.
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Don't cry at a funeral ? "Be strong ?" What better time is there to cry ? Is this the Christian scam rearing it's ugly head ?
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Aphorisms - lonely thoughts.
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America - they want to make it work, but it's broken.
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An aphorism is a glance at truth - hence short.
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Logic either says nothing or is a comforting lie.
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The greatest evil ? Gifts and medicine.
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Who cares if we live or die? ...
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Animals don't get bored (except in cages)
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Aphorisms - play with/on words.
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Describe the sine wave of opposite emotions
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Making man perfect ? An apple rots and becomes food.
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When a culture founds itself on a fundamental mistake, it is legitimate to take any statement, turn it upside down and voila! - truth. (or at least freedom from untruth (?))
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Every grouping of sentences is an attempt to convince the reader by the rhythm and flow of grammatical logic, in itself saying nothing new, to join the human race. Man is the animal that loves logic.
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Peak experiences are grounded on a lifetime of boredom.
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(The Gita) You long for infinite bliss ? Then you must pass through infinite horror.
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The aphorist - not a poet or musician but a cold seer of truth. (and a jokester?)
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Being entirely self-sufficient is like being a god.
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The happy body? The hoppy body?
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Science is a "reformation" of the Christian fight against Evil.
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"How to passionately and joyfully live a hopeless life."
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Nervousness is both fear and armour against fear.
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Nervousness = vibrating fear.
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We're too impatient to get to the joy, too distrustful of the fear beforehand.
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Soldiers of science...
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Better a disease be ambiguous (arhythmia) in order to follow your body.
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"Catch that thought before it flies away."
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I'm un-Americanizing my life.
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He became rabbilized. A rabbler.
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To be awake - every minute has 60 battles between courage and cowardice.
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United Rabble of America.
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Laughter, not as a release of tension, but as light from an increase in power.
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(July 2001) A burst internet bubble? America is a 100 year cultural bubble. 90% hype, 10% substance.
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Pleasure is relief from pain - thought says "pleasure without pain".
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Virtual intelligence vs. deep intelligence. Deep intelligence questions the value of head-dancing.
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"What am I so happy? I'm happy to be alive. I could be dead. I could have never been born."
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Justice? The death penalty in America provides good citizens with the same thrill that murderers can get.
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Life not better? Nothing you do will make it worse either.
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Every time I hear about America I run away to where I am.
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American heads are stuck in Disneyland.
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Education gives the promise of superiority to its cowardly slaves.
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A new literary form called "spiritual sparks".
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Some people have spiritual adventures, others have spiritual doodies.
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I know nothing. But I know more than everyone else.
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All roads lead to head dancing.
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Knowledge = human control.
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The death of motherhood.
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Capitalism works better - people work like asses.
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Happy people hide their happiness.
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Laboratorializing the world.
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A shallow breath is a kind of withdrawal.
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You can't be human AND open to a new god.
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The American way of life rules through propaganda, ahh, excuse me,"advertising".
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Human arrogance: rulers of the universe.
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Make one last lucid message before the "big sleep" starts.
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You don't want just any truth nor alot of little truths, you want IMPORTANT truths!
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Not truth is their honor and passion but - how can we make more people believe and follow this wonderful thing we've got? How can we seduce those full in spirit? Or those sharp clever ones? Or the one's who give out the money? Dress up the idea (or god or value or morality) differently. Does it succeed ?
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Our goal - to put thought back in it's box.
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The Americans, through accumulated boredom and frustration, keep attempting to enter the nuclear age, ie. the normal employment of this new weapon, however keep failing from the non-cooperation of more sane happier people, such as the Russians.
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The land of the flee.
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Intelligence is evil.
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Is it possible to study nature at Disneyland?
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The will to power? When we know the end is death? Then there is only one higher level of power for us humans - laughter.
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You call me a fanatic when I reread N. 20 times ? But I wish to train myself, to free myself from fanaticism.
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"I will be dead forever." "No, you will just be dead."
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The craziest may actually be closest to the truth, because truth is crazy.
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The overman will not have a bigger head. Body building and genetically engineered freak shows won't get there either. The overman will be connected to the world and hidden from humanity. (it's greatest rival and danger.)
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What is amazing about N. is that he basically lived without dialogue.. No friend knew what he was talking about, My theory is that this is what nurtured the best of his thought, ie. dialogue may very well be destructive.
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Living in the "here and now". How simple! How pure! But the only way it comes about is if accompanied by extraordinary, overpowering dark forces, whether drugs or the weight of what the future really is.
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Non-interference vs. complete interference.
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The English-Americans beat the fire (passion) out of their children.
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Suppose instead, that animals are perfectly aware of their death. It makes them awake. What about us? How low are we on the scale ?
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Visions of "eternity" ? No, something a little sooner - the next species.
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Naming is a human prejudice.
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Chatter is a show. (rehearsing- Perls)
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"Life is the most exciting videogame." "But if you lose?" "Really you have nothing to lose, your life is lost already, the moment you're born.
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Our desire for math, models, science, computers, perfection - is it not for a great, glorious, voluptuous evil?
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Deep breathing soaks energy from the world. Do not fear collapse. Only the I-thought lacks vital energy and collapses again and again. (The problem of armoring)
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And yet, it is impossible to waste time.
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I'm an anarchist writer. I write in aphorisms.
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Serving science? No, serving the scientific community.
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The intelligent person says "I don't know". The rest are BSA's and chatterboxes.
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Whoever has PhD. after his name is a marked man.
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Can humans know anything except themselves?
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The rabble and their rousers...
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Scientists? They're just religion builders.
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Religious fasting? Does the body "release" us during starvation?
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I'm driven by trying to save time ... when you can't save even one second.
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There's the truth, and then there's trying to get something out of someone as in, "Do this and the world will be better".
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Gods come and go but your family is forever.
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The world gives joy everywhere. The world gives suffering everywhere.
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Dialogue between two people is practice for convincing the whole world.
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The world is funnier than you think.
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How is clear writing possible if the meanings of words are not clear?
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Artificial (school) intelligence vs. organic intelligence.
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"We can't live like Americans and eat (enjoy life) like Italians."
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Manic activity and nervous hope is like running around the room keeping a balloon from touching the floor.
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My criticism of writer is the same as scientists - they spend too much time working instead of living. No, working is not living.
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Does a computer make a word physical?
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Your experience is always "full".
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Anyone who "believes" hasn't accepted death.
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At least the mafia doesn't pretend to be good (idealistic).
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Italians are disorganized, anarchistic, happy, sunbathed ... and therefore weak and vulnerable to invasion from the north. The mafia is their "ace in the hole" against this?
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Wealth, happiness, peace, equal rights, justice - the debate is how do we get from here to there, not is it possible or is it desirable.
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Live in the present ? Assured of a meal, doesn't this mean extreme laziness and laughing play? (Cat example)
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We wish for striking beauty with a long (years?) afterglow.
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Americans are masters of self-delusion.
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"The body can't take too much pleasure", U.G. "The body can't take too much pain", W.C.
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The highest spiritual link (height of spirituality?) is to tickle someone.
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In happy play and dance the action of I and body are one and the same.
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"Animal and child play is wasteful. Substitute calisthenics."
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What do they call evil? That which is chaotic, uncontrollable, cruel, exploitative, unjust, pitiless, wasteful. In other words - life!
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"What a clean, orderly, controllable place. Let's study the world in this laboratory. Better still, let's make the world into a laboratory."
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Is death natural?
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I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid of being dead.
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I use America merely as the best example of modern garbage.
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Deep breath as a kind of prayer to the body.
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Everything we say about the world is wrong - i.e. human.
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My view of knowledge: Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.
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Doing something is useless. Not doing something is useless.
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(Zen) You want peace? But once you've had it, it will torture you.
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All evil (i.e. imbalance, de-nature, distortion) comes from trying to be good.
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Not merely afraid of societal disapproval but the contented continuation of the collective fantasy - neither of these do I want.
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To believe the thought, "they are all cowards and liars and fakes." The depressed often entertain this. But could there be a joyous one, too? How free he would be !
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You can be anything. Here, I'll show you - spend 30 years studying medicine.
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America's child rearing philosophy: squish'em while they're little, they won't remember who did it to them.
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Italians live with fuzzy, undulating borders.
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Newspapers? Truth and facts swirl around with lies and falsehood and you never can be sure which is which.
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Birth of a new rhythm of the thought dance...fast, whirling, striking, mischievous, laughing.
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Compared to Italy, America is a police state.
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I see a bird in flight. To break this up into parts, traveling light, retinal images, nerve excitement is dead wrong. Light and continuum are "magical". Calculus is a mistake. It is merely a long attempt to make the world into something controllable. Games.
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If a culture has unexamined foundations then everything is suspect. Show me a culture that doesn't.
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The world anchors the madness of our thoughts.
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No wonder Americans are afraid of depression when the best "cure" they can come up with is the electric chair.
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Scientific activity is only a means of organizing people.
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Evolution could have made a virus-impregnable body. Life needs its evil.
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General nerdity.
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Being nervous = purposeful activity. Often purposeful activity is mere ... nervous habit.
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Leave the country. Depression is a normal, healthy reaction to the American dream.
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It's a myth that you'll miss something. You never miss anything.
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Live for today implies die tomorrow.
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Aphoristic call to arms: I invite you to think, write and attack, to malign, subvert, and ridicule moneyed-herd-knowledge.
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Each new thought we seek to found. How? By convincing others. But the foundation of true thought is chaotic swirling life not people.
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Sociological studies? No, fad watching.
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Information age ? No, advertisement age.
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Aphoristic writing follows guerilla hit and run tactics.
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Humankind : degenerate, weak, stupid, rigid, educated; may they become evermore so. Then, a new-man can appear.
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The best way MD's can improve the quality of their patients' lives is to stop scaring them about all the diseases they might have.
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Nurses and Doctors: Mommy will take care of you and Daddy will drive the evil spirits away.
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Dreaming about a permanent home is like thinking about God - doubts always creep in to spoil its purity and bliss.
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The belief in and everlasting pursuit of fun ( i.e. cheap happiness) leads to a kind of undulating nervous distress.
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The only secure place to find peace is in laughter.
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"Money doesn't exist" A. Watts Neither do words.
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Einstein: There is no absolute reference point. The boy: I am the absolute reference point.
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Imagine how a memory of "infinite bliss" would torture your daily life.
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Technology needs to be condemned not because it "pollutes" the environment but because we consider it something more important than a proliferation of toys.
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Humanity is a natural disaster.
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Modern professional philosophy is such a contradictory jungle because we find people, not "ideas and truths". Each person is a self-interested fountain of verbiage. Such a spectacle might be entertaining but is not serious.
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Stale peace is called boredom.
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An essay on war etiquette called "clean death".
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Before, only children were free and light and playful while gloom and old age started at 22. (cf. Camus, Summers in Algiers, India) Now, children are gloomy, worried and nervous and adults put on a smile and fake lightness and play...
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The fascination with annihilation lives forever.
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Ignorance = ignoring. The more you learn the more you ignore that which is present before you. (cf. Krishnamurti - can you look at the tree w/o the word tree?)
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Truth and lie - yin and yang ?
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"The sun can never see any shadows." Daniel Chapko, age 12.
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Bowled over not by mountains or sea but the "now".
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The body opens up to disease to strengthen itself, as a rock climber challenges a steeper cliff. Or perhaps to strengthen its future generations.
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"We enjoy each other - we swim in the same idealistic soup."
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When you walk on uneven ground you have the earth as a dancing partner.
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You don't get rid of the "I" because it's too scary to get rid of the "I".
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What do you do with a thousand little desires?!!
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We want a deep mystic experience, yes, but we also want to spread it's "word" all over the world. For many reasons this blocks us.
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Do birds have more fun than lizards? Fun? Birds are not human.
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"Whatever you do, don't do anything!!"
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"But this depth is not something you can grab, run away and sell !"
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Trees, clouds, sunset ... and yet all I see is my own everlasting ambition ...
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"... escape is merely sabotaging the deep relief and joy that must come if we ride through the center of our suffering" "... but you are not high enough to trust the driver."
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Worrying about the future and can't get out? - play with it.
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Democracy is the glory-word of politicians and spokesmen for those in power who want their slaves to be confused about their freedom.
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School teaches you how to be stupid.
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All the things you have to do? Yes, in order not to see what's right in front of you.
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At best they'll ignore you, at worst you'll become a legend.
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Second to death is the problem of ups and downs.
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24.6 Don't confuse sane with same.
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Cultures and civilizations will be judged by how much they enjoy children and let them be.
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American medicine is the closest thing to a religion we have.
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Not thought but morality is the culprit. Morality is the desire for eternal life.
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"Society for the Eradication of Serious Chatter".
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Animals don't need art because they are strong.
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Health spa bodies only look healthy. They lack agility.
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Endemic depression ? It's not surprising when intelligent people are expected to believe fairy tales such as "God bless America".
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All this modern noise and mind chatter... could it be a single crescendo toward the deepest silence ever heard?
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America is a spiritual butcher shop.
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Stick to the surface, it's more fruitful.
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The deeper you investigate the more complex it becomes.
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Consciousness is the delight of the universe.
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For them Nietzsche is just a scholarly meal.
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We are among those who need to go straight into the center of what oppresses us. We neither comfort nor uplift.
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There is always something waiting to crush us, from outside or inside.
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Every little fear is accompanied by a human lie.
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Are we but tools of an unknown god? of the overman?
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Part of desire is the fear you won't get it.
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Science describes humans.
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Suppose we finished physics. It would be useless without a forest of sensors sticking out of each object. But that forest changes what's there.
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Swimming in lies.
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There is no such thing as a thought.
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Just because they have bigger bombs and university buildings does not put them closer to the truth. The pyramids did not give the pharaohs eternal life.
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"The world described mathematically? Like putting a horse in a cardboard box."
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Either one is a specialist or a generalist(aphorist). You can't be good at both.
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"What is the meaning of that aphorism ?" means put it in the language of the rabble.
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Believing you are human functions as a belief in eternal life.
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America is a silly mass-hysterical fantasy.
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Old age illness point to leaving the human race : myopia makes reading unpleasant, hemorrhoids keep us from the sedentary life, forgetfulness makes us less "useful".
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The "mind" chatters because it holds onto humanity.
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We are the only animal that acts mature. The actor and free will go together.
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Medicine is for slaves, cattle and workhorses.
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The philosopher says, "Read my Opus Maximus, be like me and then we'll talk". The scientists say,"Spend 20 years studying science, become like us and then we can talk." The MD's say,"Spend 26 years of your life studying medicine, become like us, we can talk together and make alot of money." I say, "Become what you are."
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A scar looks worse but is stronger than normal tissue.
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Priests and scientists are orderers of the universe. The former give a large picture. The later gives details with the promise of a larger picture.
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It's not pain nor fear nor anxiety that is bad but panic. And then only panic about panic. Thought is a kind of panic. "But panic, the great destroyer, has it's benefits, too.
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Nausea is essential for anything creative.
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The IQ, the EQ, and the NQ. Intelligence quotient, emotional intelligence quotient and nausea intelligence quotient.
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The way to live longer is to lose your memory and avoid the pain of comparing young and old bodies.
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How is it we're more afraid of being a fool than of dying?
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May science and scholarship spread and deepen for a thousand years, preventing the mass of higher men from knowing themselves, protecting the inner workings of life.
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s Everyone is in touch with the infinite - it's called anxiety.
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You don't recognize (it's death-life) (death) because you swim in it.
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Professors not only like to chatter and consider it their duty (job requirement), but need chatter to impress their clientele (students) and keep them busy.
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The truth is you can't make the world better, but the lie is - oh, those wonderful lies!
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If you go to the center of the matter all you need is an aphorism.
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The hook of desire is the rush to the future.
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In life there is no object to fear and in death there is no subject to fear.
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The "I" is a kind of hope.
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When you lose morality you gain a sense of wonder.
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That we are human, that we share our consciousness with all humanity means absolutely nothing. It is a kind of blind hope.
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The deepest is the simplest and most obvious.
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Mothers are needed now more than ever, to protect children from the father's connection to "society".
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"There is a "purpose" but it moves without our being able to know it."
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There's a fifth possibility of other life in the universe : they're advanced, happy and have no desire to send or receive messages. They're at peace with their planet.
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Apart from the world of entertainment, a short statement is an act of generosity.
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Truth never appears in words, however it appears constantly.
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I despise every bit of cowardice that substitutes the appearance of power for real power whether it is riding around in a big car or using big or vulgar words or dressing up in fame or professional honors or killing someone in an unfair fight.
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Where has the killer instinct gone? To business !
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19.6.1996 4:22 am The sperm race - your slightest action or inaction changes the entire course of history forever. (Please, not for good or bad) For that sperm to win, to become you, the world, back through all existence, had to be exactly what it was.
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Planned becoming is impossible.
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They follow the formula "odia fata". Hate of fate. They want almost everything to be different, backwards and forwards.
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Being dead is the only "time" you don't think about death.
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Any morality is a fraud, at best a kind of art.
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Just consider how many less "objects" there were 100 years ago.
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Don't waste time having a future!
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Vulnerability is the gateway to strength.
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The breath is the call to the spirits.
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To mature is to give up being human. Man is the immature animal.
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America is not a civilization but an anti-civilization, an honored member of history's great destroyers.
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Aphoristic art. We all do it, scientists and scholars included. Search through their 4 pound books and you get one or two statements hidden deep in an elaborate logical system and new language. We hide from it's wild nature through logic and verbiage. Most often the statement is as bare and silly as "this book is another little humble block in the great edifice of solid knowledge which will shine in man's future. Praise be humility! Praise be our glorious future!"
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Maturity is transferred non-verbally between parent & child. Words are always an impediment.
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Knowledge will set you free? But it hasn't freed anyone yet. Be free from knowledge.
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A Doctor's only defence is to become God.
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Aphorisms need to be foolish in order to ring true. Man is the animal who appears 10000 times smarter than he is.
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I call my aphorisms art to remind you that all logical systems crumble within the heart.
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The space cadets have their grounding - with nervous ticks.
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Above all I am looking for nourishment.
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"Mutation -the world subconscious rushes into one being"
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Every comic needs a straight man. Mine is all of morality.
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To be a philosopher is to embrace a morality. Artist instead?
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The nazis were the flower of German culture.
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Since I refuse to dye my hair I can conceal my youth in the guise of an old man.
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The man who recognizes his madness is more trustworthy than he who denies it.
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Life is more generous than modern self-realization moralists think.
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Death is mystical.
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We have a light heart towards life and death.
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What I say is not the truth. It is a reflection of the truth I've seen.
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Spiritual stupidity ...
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If power is being able to affect as many people as possible then philosophers are the hungriest of them all.
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Museums are cultural pep talks.
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The world, including humans, does not progress; it changes.
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(Sanity and insanity grow in equal measure in the same person.) You find the sanest people in an insane asylum. The craziest people are psychologists.
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The founding principle of psychology: everyone is crazy and will forever remain so.
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Love (the word) has been mangled.
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Exercises makes you better at exercising. School makes you better at teaching.
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"How is it I'm talking to you? I'm not, if you're not awake."
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(Be a philosopher-humorist. Divine laughter.)
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Guilt - this foolish self-laceration to gain forgiveness. From whom? From the ground of being?
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What?! I'm a window?!
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By strict "necessity" you are linked with, you are, everything that has been and everything that ever will be.
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Coming from all, returning to all, we are familiar with all.
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s Morality is an attempt at being serious.
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The "will" is the link and pull of the other.
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By laboring through a long winded philosophical system we are sucked into helping the author's psyche.
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Death is pure horror.
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For every 1000000 idiots there is one more valuable, more intelligent, more advanced than all the 1000 geniuses.
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Making piles of memories, therein to cuddle up and go to sleep.
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We think in order to breathe better; but thinking restricts breathing and we never stop thinking.
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"Happiness in the future" makes both future and present unhappy.
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Philosophy is often a sane attempt to approach insane thoughts.
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Humans. Are we special? Or just crazy?
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Headache = lack of oxygen/breathing to overtaxed brain ?
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Men and women, reason and passion, will forever oppose, stimulate, strengthen and bring each other to life. To want one and only one is to long for death and its oneness.
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Nuclear war is a very stupid way to die.
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The golden glow of an early sun caught between the mountains and a dark cloud.
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I look up and see the familiar bright moon and remember to breathe deeply. The fragrant warm air fills my body and memories swirl of exuberance and love.
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How can you form a close, trusting emotional bond with someone when at any moment that person is likely to tear that bond apart.
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He has a modest wisdom. This other has a passionate wisdom.
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s How pale and lifeless their ghosts and theories and afterlives compared to the raw vitality of existence.
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A person who is dumb sees more - for example, a baby.
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Sudden overwhelming danger aptly describes non-existence.
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The ambition of astrology is to prove itself, and it does, but at the expense on human spirit.
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Cars touch when they are 3 inches from each other. There is a human contact on Italian roads that is missing in other countries.
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The perfumes of the earth lead me to forget.
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Anger, hot and red and free of the past.
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Dreaming of a home, your home, is akin to wanting to die.
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My life is full of little dangers.
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Some days I feel like loosening all my strings and letting someone or something or nothing take over.
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On a cool day sleeping in the sun, a warm stone for my bed.
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Self torture: sometimes we like to experience strong emotions.
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Clouds, dark and low, bring an untimely dusk. Am I on another planet?
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Why do we see our world as imperfect? Why do we continually open new gestalts? Why do we not merely absorb, and love, and exude fearless strength?
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Bliss is life without gestalts. Death is too.
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At night startled, then delighted, by distant lightning.
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There are evil days when the soul wants to breathe again, and we and our protected, tranquilized bodies are taken for a ride. I think this is wise. A life that doesn't face some fear, some insecurity, some risk, is a poor one.
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It was rare when he didn't feel he would live forever.
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A day of pain comes to soften my shell, deepen my heart.
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s The one god idea is intimately involved with death and its oneness rather than life and its multitude.
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s Oneness and nothingness are the same.
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The woods at night, stars, a fire, a chilly wind, distant lights, a happy family huddled in a blanket, heads peaking out.
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Sickness brings with it a mellowness: a suspension of plans and worries, an awareness of body.
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The will to ignore what we see is incredibly strong.
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At least if you don't like my thoughts, you haven't wasted allot of time.
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The lonely family.
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s Our future is in the earth.
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s Your dreams are not my dreams. I walk alone among moonlit forests. Your dreams are not my dreams.
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A magnificent dark sky: thunder, rain and lightning signify the breakup of one season into another. So too with my spirit: anger, tears and flashes of insight.
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I sometimes give to friends more than I have and then find myself taking.
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Unlike us, the Greeks knew that greatness and bigness are not the same.
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The wind whispers across my ear.
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s My problem: to make 70 years into an eternity.
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Our houses have too much geometrical perfection. A forest has only one similar perfection : the line of gravity.
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The father did not cry until he put away his child's toys for ever.
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The public application of physics to psychology is an attempt to deny oneself and control others. Fortunately, among happy people this is not very inspiring.
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Some thoughts need to hatch; the gestation is unconscious and the birth surprising. Other thoughts need to be dug for and weeded and pruned till they grow to maturity. Rarely, a thought is arrived at logically and deliberately.
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Our centers are located in or close to our bodies and rarely go more than 20 feet away.
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In a commercial culture above everything else work means purchasing power - this hopeless attempt to fill ones emotional void with the latest products.
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What I seek is very simple - to feel the weight of my own life, to delight in, and intensify myself with, existence. Some may say that I seek God, but that word, like "love", has been used and misused too much. Besides, God is incompatible with eternal nothingness.
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The best of this day was the thrill of a sparkling sea come alive with blustery winds and a brilliant sun.
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In most people there is an imbalance between enthusiasm and spirit. In some we see a natural grace and confidence.
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Do we ask animals if they believe in eternal life? It is not one of their concerns. We regain their innocence when it ceases to be one of ours.
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A dry fragrant wind after a day on the beach. Sometimes, unexpectedly, pleasure is overwhelming - a sweetness that flows through my whole body.
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Commercial culture is what I find so repulsive.
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The moist air, fierce winds, clouds rushing up from the sea. My depressed heart feels uplifted.
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At last a day of rest. Sleep is so sweet it has a sensual pleasure.
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At dusk the lava eruption on Etna seems like a wound.
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The psychic world is a fog around our fate.
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He saw death in his son's eyes and his heart was forever changed.
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s Americans confuse freedom and over-stimulation.
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I dive deep into the clear Mediterranean, three hundred fish swim still deeper.
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Sartre: Being what we are not and not being what we are allows us to laugh.
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We attempt to live in timeless world, to live only in the past, or only in the present, or only in the future. But we forget the past, or the present passes, or the future arrives, and we are left with ourselves, and laughter.
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Bagnara Calabria - from a distance a white splash of houses on the side of a mountain, each house a seat in front of a grand spectacle.
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Cool sand, sea and moonlight delight a sun-burnt body.
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The old stone streets and houses of Calabria are preserved not like a museum but like a beloved piece of the earth.
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A father's love for his child. He doesn't speak lightly of nuclear war.
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How do I heal myself of all this wasteful emotional internal dialogue? Recognize: 1) I'm tired 2) It's pleasurable 3) Freedom is instantaneous, renewable, central - it lightens my heart, clears my senses, puts a twinkle in my eye.
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Bombs come from an office.
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Fortunately, the most important research is done without money.
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In front of danger my wits and energy are mobilized. An hour ago I was nervous and ill. Now I forget all but necessities and the graceful control of body and emotions.
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A warm dry wind brings me the feeling that summer is near.
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I prefer a quiet birthday. This day, with a good conscience, I can do nothing.
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Assuming a safe position, I would like to experience a strong earthquake.
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Oregon weather: Why on this sunny day for which I've waited so long do I feel so sad? Could it be that I know it won't last. That this richness will soon slip away.
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s I awake from the horror of eternal nothingness to the wonder and joy of my existence. Cleansed and sure of myself what seems absurd is not life but all the petty worries and goals with which I pass my time.
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The best thoughts come to me when I don't think.
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Slowly the orange sun sinks into a gray and misty world.
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Walking Messina streets in the early morning sunshine before rush hour. I remember the excitement of a new city after a poor night's sleep on the train.
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The momentary sight of eternal nothingness brings about nothingness which allows separation, analysis, technology, civilization. But there is no nothingness, only yes and no, life and eternal nothingness.
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God fills gaps for us.
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A fresh wind blows through our home and we are happier afterwards.
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Last year I earned half as much but had more time for the beach, my children and my wife. My standard of living drops when I work more.
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Fatigue brings confusion. The sun and play softens hard emotions.
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She gazed down into the distant, cold, deep water. What feelings settled into those last moments? Perhaps only two: anguish and curiosity.
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The Temple of Segesta stands simple and pure on a grass covered hill. I believe it will outlive the skyscrapers of Manhattan.
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We feel a car as we feel our body. If the motor breaks down we are disproportionately depressed.
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So much of modern life is entertainment masked as seriousness. Reading the newspaper is like watching football. "Pick your team, Eagles or Bears, Elephants or Donkeys, and follow the action!" Education is a game in how to spend as little time as possible in order to get an "A" on the next test which prepares you for a job where you try to work as little as possible and still get paid. Those who take education and work seriously either enjoy it as entertainment or exalt it far above its worth. Perhaps the saddest example is the internal dialogue we indulge in - that endless, intentionally unresolved drama.
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Deliberation of an important decision should be a work of art - measured, inspired, balanced, sacred, and when finished, separated from its creator. It would be wonderful to live without anxiety.
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To care or not to care. Who cares? Of course, we all do. Being misunderstood is what is so painful and disappointing.
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In order to sleep all circles must be closed.
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A long rest is welcome.Doing too much alters the nervous system.
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Cutting out the thyroid does not cure cancer of the thyroid
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Calm waiting is an important and difficult skill.
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The nation is a poor substitute for a religious afterlife. Its main disadvantage is that we participate beforehand not after.
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Being sick brings childhood memories, safe at home, covered with a blanket. At times I feel like giving up, but it would not be better or easier.
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"Sun and branches formed mosaics on the forest floor. He lived a long time in his woods before he felt like returning."
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A day when I prefer to forget myself and my noble aspirations, when distractions are followed with a good conscience, when I sleepily indulge in small pleasures.
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One job, one house, one spouse. I like this stability. Sicilian faces are calmer, their voices less shrill, their emotions full-bodied, their fates clearer. It takes a lifetime to get to know a skill, a place, a person.
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Computers are fascinating but I forget my heart and cube my brain.
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I polished yesterday's note so well it ended up being 5 words.
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Eating is cruel. Even a plant sends part of itself to the wind seeking a new color and glory, a place closer to its beloved sun. Animals... If I dwelt on this I would go mad. I don't. I enjoy good food.
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A red glow transforms these trees. What strange light this cold windy evening... Look! It's the fire of the setting sun.
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I ride my irritability toward the pleasurable shatter of daily habits and niceties. At the last moment I swerve or stop.
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Irritable moods need only go skin deep to be effective. My hair tickles my ears and neck. Nerve endings buzz, I itch, I hate to be touched. But of course the mood strikes deep. The small events of the day, the familiar sights, hurt. The shallowness of what I do tortures and saddens me.
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s Americans love the wilderness, but only as tourists. They suffer culture shock if they have to live there.
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Night winds toss our woods. I am warm and inside but the sound, wave upon wave, calls me.
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I like the crumbling exteriors of Italian houses. Lacking presumption they participate in the texture of the earth.
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Don't think fame or obscurity, acclaim or critique. Think of unknown friends, think 1000 years from now.
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I look up at this glorious high billowing white cloud and realize the greatest power in the world to experience joy. It lies within my grasp, within me. You pay a price however - the need to embrace a terrible honesty.
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Suffering the flu: fever, weakness, a taste in my mouth. A gentle illness brings a certain sensuality.
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r Dreams (aphorisms, all of life ?) are a mixture of the human and the inhuman.
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r Existence, Consciousness, Bless.
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r The war against terrorism is as important as the new taste of coke.
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r We are not human, we are spirits of the universe.
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r Aphorist-philosopher
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r society - cowards training and support association (support of cowards in everlasting training yokels (??))
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You are both human and inhuman - both life and death.
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r We may live only 64 years but every minute can be as precious as any other.
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Aphorisms are like arrows (?)
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Nietzsche was possessed by an unknown god (?)
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Economic activity is not necessary. ?
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A culture expresses itself through it's insanity. (dream, the night after "A Beautiful Mind")
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The after death - Heaven and Hell at the same time, indivisible.
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America - base drives of mass movements fed by politicians wanting to be elected.
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A string of sentences is like a song beckoning you towards humanity.
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Windows almost make me believe in a God.
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Education as religion...
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Hope only delays fear. Fear must be travelled through.
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r Separation from nature (cities, suburbia, farmland) makes us believe we're unmutable (immutable?) end-gods.
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r Few sports allow agility and suppleness. Perhaps soccer. All the rest, football, baseball, basketball are for machines and tanks. Even dance - classical dance, that is - stiffens. Suppleness of body comes by running through un-pathed hillside forests. (Suppleness of mind-spirit is increased by reading inspired aphorisms.)
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r The true purpose of education is the stiffening and eventual crustation (sp?) of the human body.
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r Scientists make an artificial world and then study ways to make it more artificial and separate. ??
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r ll dreams are funny, we just don't have a sences of humor.
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r Nietzsche-training : containing opposites, turning values on their head...
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r Reason is not foundation but a link to a (irrational) foundation.
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r I have no belief system - I believe I'm alive.
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r After a few breaths, freedom is boring.
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r Free aphorisms.
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r DNA? This coded stack of molecules has an intelligence that has nothing to do with a brain.
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r The defining mark of the rabble is that past a certain point of exploration they panic and flee to the huddling masses. ?? shorten?
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Being good and being nervous go together. And so, nervousnes is spread around - a very bad emotional plague. (?)
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A new definition of (personal?) national wealth - the number of hours of freedom.
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Texture is chaos seen at a distance. Ordered streets at a distance are meerly smaller ordered streets.
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In school you develop virtual intelligence. ??
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(college professors as modern priests)
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Belief? Isn't that "happy lying"?.
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Lawyers, scientists, scholars and philosophers - the truth is there, and maybe we have the best way of uncovering it, but it will never be known to us, not even approximately. Who cares? I can change the world with a twitch of my nose.
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Americans treat children the way they treat pets - they de-sex them so they'll be good and kind and won't make messes.
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(Spanking) The defining mark of GAB culture is unsexed children.
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Christian glue.
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Consumer and consumee.
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A strong belief in God is the quickest, surest way to hell.
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"Reform is so boring. Why not max out?"
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Watts makes an eloquent and reasonable case for nonsense. A musical but tepid revolt. Who is he talking to ?
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K. lacked cosmic humor.
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Their heads are so fuzzy they believe their own lies.
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The less glorious the afterlife, the more healthy the culture.
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My view of philosophy : For 40,000 years man hasn't changed and for another 40,000 he'll be the same. During that time a few philosophers will spin off for a few short periods in their lives.
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Alan Watts - he's excellent, far above all the others, but there is something missing.
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Our tragic sight: "You are a speck of dust. You are the whole world."
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The holocaust was a shinning example of the spirit and worth of the German people and culture.
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r Outside of logic, grammar, musical words, poses and chatter.
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r Man will probably last as long as the dinosaurs. Who cares? Non grammatical impulses will last through it. Opportunities for dominance and expansion will arise after atomic wars.
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r The problem of aristocracy vs. democracy. Modern democracy is merely.....
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r Stand on Nietzsche's head.
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r What bewilders me is how N. is ignored. ??
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r The basic American lie - denie yourself and enter into our marvelous world ???
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r There is no green.
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r Three proofs that you are god. (ie. the world) 1. The great sperm race. 2. ? 3. ?
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r I am not out to improve humaity. The spectacle of it's perfection, ie. homogenization, mediocritazation ....
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r "But I don't have a system. My concepts, my aphorisms, are half-mocking, half-malicious and therefore true."
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r Eternal reoccurance is a psychological grounding and stimulus. ??
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r The scientific spirit doesn't want to study the world but make the world laboratory-like. A great success, except for the chaotic and passionate human heart. ??He succeeds in almost every way. Schools, workplace, suburbia, all controlled and sterile, variables kept to an utter minimum. All, that is, except the chaotic and passionate human heart, spirit and desire. Beating, frightening and humiliating children puts on a good show in England and America, creating meek, squeeky, ???
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r The belief in the honesty, clarity, rationality, sanity of our institutions, it's leaders, workers and subjects....
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r Every dialogue begins with shared hopes. ??Dialogue means to proceed with shared goals.
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r All anarchistic children are open to strange gods.
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r My 14 year old Jason says, "Death - nobody knows what it is and everyone is going to find out." My devil in me says, "Death - everyone knows what it is and no one is going find out."
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r Every elevated feeling, every sublime moment of culture is merely a symbol, a pointing to the power and beauty incarnate in a new species. And what is this new species to do with man? If not sweet meat, then a pest on his land, with some specimens in a zoo? What is the dike against this great tide? Highly organized and "educated" civilization, (smooth level surfaces, parks, habits, etc, etc.?)
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Chiropractic = a detoxifiction center and follow-up haven for former drug addicts.
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r Breathers (spirit?) vs. chatterboxes...
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r (CIA ?) Intelligence and morality are mutually exclusive.
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r Memorizing facts and concepts is not intelligence but servitude.
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They have a flag-fetish.
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r A good soldier-scientist fighting darkness.
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r Indifference reveals more power.
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r "Everything leads back to the impossible goal - I want to live longer."
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r ( Full joy needs the foundation of the absolute uselessness of human activity. ?? say better?!) The uselessness of activity founds my joy.
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r "The body has the power to live forever, but dies as an act of generosity - it knows it's link to the world."
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Could there be such a thing as positive revenge? Praising, categorizing, historizing the past into some monster. Cf. N.'s "Tarantula" and K.'s loss of memory.
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r America - a breeding ground for acters.
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r Nietzsche attracts either Nazi types or honestly balenced people. He is not used as a mask to hide selfish, violent, cruel pleasures as with Jung, Jesus, yoga, Buddha, scientific progres...infact all spiritual, "peaceful" philosophies.
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r Animals and small children see the world. Humans see only the mud of churning emotions. Scientists are humans who try to escape mud by collecting and arranging mountains of "pure datum"
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r Not the content but basic rythyms are important.
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r The object of almost all human production is a show (animals (Fluffy & TV kittens) don't care about it)
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r Anecdotal evidence is worth nothing scientifically - but it's the best (most useful, truthful ?) evidence.
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r The basis of a good relationship is open cheerful selfishness.
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r An aphorism should be general and absolute, with a janus-faced mocking of all absolutes.
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r Anything longer than an aphorism is an attempt at rabble-rousing. (speech?)
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r "Science" is as vague and mystical a word as truth. There is only scientific activity, scientific-driven hopes, scientific attitudes, scientific poses. ... in sum, a vision of the way humans should be. It's goal - reconstructing the house from building blocks is a failure. ??It is the latest and most slippery of the great religions.
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r Peace mongers?
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r Flitting back and forth? No, fitting back and forth.
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r The basis of scientific activity, philosophy and hope - that the world can be understood and controlled by isolating parts for study is merely a moral project - to convince and coerce men to be stackable, predictictable, managable and controllable. Knowledge is nothing but empirical facts merely means you and I are "empirical facts".... (aphorize??)
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r Could it be so simple? That people no longer want children because ....
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r Any thought or model which sees an organ or cell or DNA strand seperately from the animal is false, and probably a lie. "But then all science is false or a lie?!" "Yes." "How will we know anything? " "You mean - how will we control people ?" Mutation is by mutual "agreement".
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r We are fighting moneyed knowledge. Knowledge producers fed by money. Orderly moneyed groups supported by that knowledge.
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r Alien attack movies. Fear of the newman.
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r Most of our mind chatter is connected with others. A silent mind needs a noisy majority.
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r Perhaps not a superman but an "anti-man" ? aman ? amen? (Let it be.)
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r The mob needs great men as legends. How holy and mystical their words have become, especially after they're dead.
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r We hunger to be intoxicated, swept away by wine or music or love, but this is available to us at any moment without props. (But it's not fun). ??
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r Violence comes from non-violence.
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r Death is unlookable, but it's mystery invades everywhere. ??
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r Stand on Nietzsche's head. He sung about heights, but he wasn't that high. ("Pluck leaves from my wreath")
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r Anti-dialogue societies ?? Like a vow of silence but aphoristic?
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r We all have limited energy and must channel it one way or the other. Some into dance, some into excellence in profession, others a disciplined creative adventurous philosophical spirit.
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r There is no difference between religion and thought, between thought and religion. All our thoughts are prayers and all their prayers were thoughts.
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r "Planting seeds and gathering fruit" says Alan Watts. But what about the weeds?
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r Green revolution ? Merely allows more people to be on the verge of starvation.
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r There is only one way to be a free spirit, to be free of death - confront death. ??
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r For every thousand worthless aphorists there is one worth more than all scientists and scholars put together. Each sloppy aphorist each with a thousand sloppy aphorisms ???
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r Romanticism (idealism?) is the species talking, sometimes destructively. ???
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r Dialogue, whether in sentences or books, assume a goal of union of fact and truth. Aphoristic writing has no such goal. It's a return to movement and chaos. ??
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r The "house of death" - 15 minutes uncontrollable laugher then " returned"
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r All math (thought?) is without perspective.
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r True but funny.
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r Language lies. That's why we must twist it and squeeze it.
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r I am tired of dealing with other people's fears.
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r Are you in love with life or just franticly avoiding any sign of death?
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r Suspicions about all translators. Even Kaufman and Nietzsche. But aren't all writers translators of that which is or was?
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r How would we know Italy was so sane and beautiful if there wasn't America,
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r What are you? Look inside your intestines.
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r They warn me about seperating myself, but I am only falling back to my original state.
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r "Death is an undulation in consciousness. How would you know you were alive unless you had once been dead? " Watts
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r America is false-through-and-through.
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r How long does real horror last? A few seconds. ??
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Our home and safety - steep wooded mountains.
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r 28.8 A scholar may be talking about someone else but he's showing himself.
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r 23.7 The "self" and body armour - straining for permanency. ???
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Hope merchants.
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11.6.96 Professionals - the new ruling class, guardians and dispensers of the eternal truths and powers of science. ??
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29.5 Same and sane are not equal.
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r 3.5 In your death is hidden everything that you live.
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It's a totally different kind of courage.
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Science is fun, but is it important?
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r Scientists want "empirically predictable results". But any prediction can be "sabotaged by the predictor, therefore nothing is predictable.
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r Second to death is the problem
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r Professionals - the new ruling class, guardians and dispensers of the eternal truths and powers of science. ??
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r (Style note- contrast two "aphorisms"- modern value vs. my thought. "They say, I say." Absurd syllogisms - Eating kills, I eat, therefore I kill.)
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r 220 million diseased individuals. Does it provoke pity in us? Not in the least.
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r Thinking is an attempt to unite (untie?) yourself with humanity.
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r Scientists are trying to have an "out of the body experience" ??
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r You want your philosophy to avoid the hands of fascists and other submen? Make it as uninspiring and cryptic as possible.
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r How well disposed towards life he was - pain, disease and death didn't matter ??
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r Democratic knowledge? But you know something only if you've experienced it. And so everyone is given a common experience - school.
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r The psychology of scientific activity.
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Later-life forgetting. To forget is not to care about it.
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Use yourself as a mirror to explore the world . (?)
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Each object is unknowable by science. But we can see it.
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A book: "On Leaving the Human Race" or "How to Leave the Human Race"
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Mathematics is our greatest anthropomorphic fantasy. It either lies or says nothing new.
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How could K say we are "totally responsible for our actions" ? (Letters to the schools V1) Sartre, too. It's as if a watch stopped, a kind of infinite self-consciousness, a grinding to a halt the flow and passion of the body, a diseased state. Is there a link to giving priests the right to punish ?
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"The End of Science" ? They are idealistic i.e. hopeful i.e. stupid i.e. cowardly i.e. blind i.e.
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Army of scientists? Soldiers of Christ?...
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An object cannot exist without you.
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Illness? Do we seek to be "scared to death"?
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A scholar is like a surgeon. His main skill is not to kill the patient.
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Consciousness is not me. I am the world.
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While Amercans surf cyberspace, Italians buy celular phones to talk to their families.
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Lies are warm and cuddly.
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The lie is more alive, more useful, more stimulating.
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Nervousness is a kind of shield and radiating poison.
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There is only one practical activity for us civilized ones to do - hide wheat in the forests and mountains. The rest is fun and games.
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"I will become a traitor to the human race"
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Charging to the future was learnt very early.
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Yes, there is happiness which none of us have. It's balence and fountain is a "life without hope"...
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Priests ? and Doctors speak in Latin.
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Cancer is related to perfection. Heart disease is related to heart.
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Is understanding an author becoming like the author?!
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Pain is merely a cry for life.
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"Captain video and his space cadets"
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Morality and personal death are intimately related.
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Bill's axioms : 1 Death is impossible to look at. 2 Happiness and suffering are equal.
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The true meaning of anatomy is to tickle us. What, I'm that ?!
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p Thoughts from the gulf war : America is just an ugly little country, without breadth or breath.
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r The more accurate a theory is, the more it's use distorts the world... "I am cruel in order to kind." But for whole peoples (Germany, England, America) "I am good in order to be cruel."
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Pain is like climbing a mountain. It gives you "potential energy".
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r "Inside yourself"=on one side of your skin? But inside your spirit cannot mean this.
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r Suppose you were the only being that exists and that the world is just a way of suprising yourself. When you die, all the lights go out.
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p Internal conflict and fear gives way to calm, silence, curiosity.
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r Absoulte destiny- You can't say there is nothing else but. (Only what is observable exists?? Leads to solipsism.)
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The best aphorisms have a tinge of ironic pomposity.
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r Perls' main contribution was to free psychotherapists not their patients. ??
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We're in the age of anxiety? Anxiety comes from security.
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Animals are on LSD. Animals see rather than think. (cf K., N. in FW 110)
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A "Gestalt" dissappears if the whole is broken up. And the whole world? Do we not break that up?
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The English, Germans and Americans are most advanced humans, with the educated at the head of the herd.
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Today's science : the search for a solution becomes complicated when the simple solution is too painful.
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Neurotic happiness...
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An artist doesn't discuss his art before or while he's doing it, not even with himself. Just so the aphoristic
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I'm a family racist.
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Not security but nourishment.
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Do you walk through a wall? No. That wall is you, that door is you. Feel your feet. The earth is you.
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Are we all weak and scattered and self-lacerating simply as a defence !? If we were strong and whole and luminous and peaceful we would attract scum like a magnet?...
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Aphoristic art.
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He was an intellectual buddha, blessing all.
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If we don't want death, we don't want life, for every living thing dies...??
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They're all so concerned about the future of humanity, but does it matter?...
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r Large systems of "knowledge" are defensive not descriptive in nature.
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r If humans have nothing else to nourish their spirit than other humans, they will eventually become cannibals.
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My method: List all the popular (among scholars, philosophers, scientists) beliefs, values and virtues. List their opposites. Assume the first column is supported by laziness and cowardice, even stupidity. Open up an inquiry into the second row.
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Desire is a mobilization and expenditure of energy.
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Words seperate us from the world. (?)
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No human construct awes me anymore.??
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My opposition to war is not moral but aethetic.???
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The philosopher presents you with a new language and intricate system, promising power at the end of your labors, but...
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It's like berating yourself for berating yourself.
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By laboring through a long winded philosophical system we a sucked into helping the author's psyche.
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p The moon in my dreams - the last familiar "face" before that terrifying expansion and dissolution into the universe and dark space, into all and nothing.
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r An aphorism stands by itself; hence one per page.
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3s The two old friends cried when they parted for the last time. Their joy in each other's company had been great. In a similar way I will someday die.
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p After 6 months neglect, running stirs my emotions as well as my blood.
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h A walk through the woods with my 6-month-old Danny. A happy baby can calm and elevate, like old friends in silent company.
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r Her life is as important and real as mine. It is not too much to say that I would risk my own to save hers.
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r I don't want to talk to governments, religions, movements, societies, peoples, nations. It is you, my reader, who I seek.
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p The sadness that arises between friends after a failure of communication.
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p The candles of shabbos warm our friendship.
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p An old friend awakens my spirit.
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h We lie below a swaying pine beneath the dark night sky.
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h Living on a mountain gives us a walk inside a cloud. The gray air allows only silhouettes of our magnificent pines, shows us soft walls instead of distant views.
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r Like an eclipse of the sun, what we take for granted is emphasized by absence. In the same manner, sometimes people get angry.
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p News of the breakup of a friend's marriage, or the suicide of someone I've known, shakes me. The tremors last for days.
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1s There are only two true equations: 1. Your death and my death will be equally devastating. 2. You and I share exactly the same world.
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h I suffer from lunch. Double work: I treat 80 patients while I dispose of a meal.
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An old cry, "the circus is coming!!" Such a basic, primitive, thrilling entertainment. TV, cinema, magazines, novels all divorce us from our surroundings. Not the circus. Kids from 2 to 92 are in the ring. "Watch out! Here come the tigers!!"
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This website is an invitation to follow Nietzsche, not as scholars but as creators. There is no need understand him better (put what he said into different words, nor place him correctly in the history of philosophy) nor to analyze his life again. His words inspire us or they don't. We need to embark. This software can be used for any collection of thoughts or musings, but ...
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"The heirs of Nietzsche."
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The biggest problem with "tomorrow" is death. When it's no longer a problem living for today is easy.... ???
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The hidden philosopher?
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Might it be better to think alone??
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The objectivity of science dictates: Look but don't state. State but don't look. ??
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"If we can't know it, what's the good of it? "Why should the universe exist for the good of you, or the human species, or even life? "But if it can't be known, it is meaningless." "It's not meaningless, it IS you."
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Long live a myriad variety of rythyms!
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It's like berating yourself for berating yourself.
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Express your innermost thought with an aphorism. Don't hide behind verbiage like a coward or a shuckster.
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Democratic suffering. ??
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K. : all thought corrupts. Corrupts what? The pure flow of aloneness? Observing without choice? What interferes? The social promise of "eternal life"?
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Perls : all thinking is rehearsing for our roles, especially those we are not sure of.
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p I've invented the doctrine of equal opposites in order to like myself and the world.
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"The only vital human relationship is between natural parent and child. All the rest are dream images." ??
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p Tears give way to a starry sky and silent love.
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hr The morning air dissappears to let in the mediterranean sun. A fragrance envelopes the night air as the white moon looks down.
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p Miserable day. Angry at my children. Afterwards I feel mean and heartsick. They forgive me sooner than I do.
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p Eva and I talk about our "family experiment": being happy and allowing our kids to be happy. What we learn from this beats anything that comes out of silicon valley or artificial hearts.
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p I have decided to pursue a discipline: each day to enter a "polished note" into a journal.
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You don't work on aphorisms, you catch a brightly colored butterfly.+
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Web title : The Aphorist (From) the Spirit of Nietzsche -Exploring Existence Through Aphorisms. If light can be both particle and wave, I propose an equally absurd statement - we are both human and anti-human, with a love of our species and the urge to transform ourselves into a new species, with new powers, new senses - even if it risks the demise of the old. "Philosophers - Embark !!" Fakelandia - Doctors don't aquire knowledge, they learn words (terminology) and lines and manerisms to put on an impressive show.
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Being awake is being attuned to what is most obvious.
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The storm that engulfed the American Indians will leave us all helpless, confused and disoriented.
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Though the world doesn't get better, it changes.
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Thought is a continual flight from a chaotic present.
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Life is blessed! Life is cursed! What a relief both these statements are !
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The fatal trap for geniuses - their genius.
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You can't say there is nothing else but. (Only what is observable exists?? Leads to solipsism.)
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Nobody talks of death because its initial impact is so devastatingly gloomy. Morbose.
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Thought is a continual flight from a chaotic present.
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Life is blessed! Life is cursed! What a relief both these statements are !
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The fatal trap for geniuses - their genius.
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Turn toward your evil; you won't lose your good.
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Bugs make people stronger.
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Antibiotics make people weaker and bugs stronger.
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Dreaming is a kind of happiness, but not the dream.
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Courage or cowardice? In truth it doesn't matter. But cowardice is not necessarily to your advantage. ???
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My relations with society is governed by elevated self-protection.
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Society : the individual succombing to a gross cowardice.
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You can't say there is nothing else but. (Only what is observable exists?? Leads to solipsism.)
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You can't oppose something without becoming like it.
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Fulfill our mission as human beings? No, fulfill our mission as beings.
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When you think you're safe, you're not; and when you think you're not safe, you are.
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A philosopher (aphorist) produces possessions for others?
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Cells have a memory?
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Upon awaking our possession-defenders charge forward.
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Feeling vulnerable? It's an intelligent (accurate, truthful?) place to be.
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All, all that has been is eternally blessed. All that might have been, that might be in the future isn't worth talking about. All you can know about what is, appears right before you.
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Nobody talks of death because its initial impact is so devastatingly gloomy. (Morbose)
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Death is the fire of the universe.
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To the scientist: I admire your discipline, your inquisitiveness, your demand for certainty. But there is cowardice in the way you limit this. Why not look at all life and morals this way? Look first of all at the little hopes that drive all this scientific busy-ness.
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A soldier has courage. But there are so many different types of courage, and of cowardice.
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The college campus as a peaceful intellectual haven? No. Intellect needs strong props: impossing noble buildings, the beauty of nature.
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Oh, how we love to dream!
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Eternal reoccurance was Nietzsche's attempt to bless the world.
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Are we all weak and scattered and self-lacerating simply as a defence !? If we were strong and whole and luminous and peaceful we would attract scum like a magnet?...
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When I see my father, I see the whole world.
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Boredom proves eternal life.
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Pronouncers of good and evil are terrorists.
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Problem: to not consciously be a part of western philosophy. Don't read? Forget? Be stupid? Go on an adventure to discover a new world?
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The Nazi's gave a bad name to evil.
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An absurdly happy world.
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Science is just a last attempt to place meaning on an absurd world.
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The way to evil, good evil that is, is love of one's children.
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Genetic engineering is a kind of plastic surgery. ??
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Americans like cars so much they want to make the universe into a car. Rev-up the universe !! Ride the universe !!
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That other person is no more "like" me than that bird in the tree or that rock on the ground.
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(The person reflects the whole world.)
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(We transfer what we are to our children.)
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How can we prove this? The Heisenburg uncertainty principle?
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The DNA molecule reflects and changes with the whole person at every moment.
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Lamarckism?
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Must a social species remain social? Are forest sages possible? How could a forest sage species survive? Must the social species dominate and exclude for millions of years?
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The use of an illness increases with how bad it looks.
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You can never miss what you were meant to do... except perhaps by following these words.
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bsoulte destiny-
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The English? Germans? White Americans? Emotional children in an adult shell with adult mannerisms. Distrust success.
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New organs, new species? Only Hindus, being non-humanists, linked to all life, all things, to the whole, entertain such thoughts.
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The hope and driving force behind scholarship is that all these solid minutiae will serve a great scheme of knowledge and power. But...
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What is the greatest psychological fact? That we simply do not believe we are going to die.
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The two mysteries: where did we come from and where are we going. Not only are the answers impossible but the questions are also.
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Enlightenment dies into memory. The guru wants to relive it through the young.
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There is no thing. All is one.
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Everything that is, is sacred and eternal. However anything said about what is ....
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How is it possible to be bored?
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But death is already totally emmersed in life.
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Strangely enough death will be exactly like our present yet totally, absolutely different.
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If you think of the future, think about death; it bounces you back to the present.
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We talk about life and death as if we were victims when we are participants, equal to everything that has lived and will live.
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Whether to get a "good" job or a simple repetitive one such as in the post office?
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In democracies the weakest and worst rule rather than the strongest and best.
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Essay - Disease as an escape from a mediocre society ??
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Follow every bodily malfunction without any attempt to cure it. See it as your best wisdom. Live dangerously.
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"But the world is not clear and why not be like the world ? Better to talk in signs & symbols like Heraclitus and Lao-Tse... Clarity implies a proposal for unambiguous mechanical solutions to life when there are none."
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"Be clear in what you write!"
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Life is not a problem to be solved. If it is, then death is the solution.
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not flitting between object and idea but hiding in background.
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head chatter = complaining ? Petition to a higher authority ? Escape from aloneness ?
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"No. You can't jump off a cliff & expect to live. You can't steal without someone being mad. You can't rob people of their dreams of moral reward without reaction, etc.
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"If thre is no morality then everythiing is permitted"
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Dionysian inspiration is sloppy.
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I doubt, therefore I am.
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writing : concise but not timid and unclear.
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Illness is too vital to be left to mechanics.
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We cannot comment on philosophers since we do not know their psychology
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( a questioning style ?? )
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The best aphorisms have a tinge of ironic pomposity.
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Logic and math say nothing new.
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Aphorisms are no "truer" than any other statement or series of statements we utter or print. But at least they don't hide behind the cloak of logic or eloquence prose.
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Saints act the way a person would be if life were wonderful only.
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Pain is the body seeing death.
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Science doesn't describe the world. It describes humans.
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Science uses only a microscope to see the world. Otherwise it sees only idea-models.
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Being a good person is no excuse.
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Artists and writers only create images and ideals. Life experimenters create life.
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The cure is the disease.
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The disease is the cure.
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Sleep and the body. Are consciousness and will the same thing ? Meditation ? Mystic states?
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Rediscovering my evil.
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"What you say has an element of truth." "We're getting close to the truth?" Is this possible? Or is truth nonverbal, alive, unique, crushing and unapproachable by science or thought? Is not truth laughable, in other words, forever lost after being seen or felt or sensed? ...
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Democratic values - all values have equal rights.
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A new aristocratic perspective???
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Is death real? Your deepest fear is correct. So is your deepest calm.
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Overpopulation is not a problem. Neither is underpopulation nor just-right population.
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Instead of choosing a goal which drags the rest of your life with it, assume your spirit-body already contains it's glorious goal and follow it's signs and indications that surface into consciousness.
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Dreaming of a pleasurable bright future, covers and soothes the flow of daily pain, boredom, fears and worries which we refuse to face. Eventually it becomes a habit.
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The indulgence in alcohol, despite the swagger, is a need for the feminine principle. After a hard day's work, the aggressive armoured body needs to be soft, wet and pliant.
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Who is brave enough to examine politics and morals, patriotism and our fondest ideals, important matters such as daily monotony and escapes ...
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I do not object to science. I object to the politics of science, to the spiritualization of science.
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has it's limits and we're left with our nervous ambivelence.
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What psychology does the longing for ET's point to? The search for a radio beam containing secrets of an advanced civilization. It's not merely to skip 10000 years of scientific fatigue, but the confirmation of our belief in progress. Because the soothing aspect of other-worldly dreaming
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Two kinds of happiness- 1. charging ahead, doing your duty looking forward to a bright future. 2. The future doesn't matter. Or it contains death or tragedy. The wonder of the world forever present before you. You soak it up with passion and love.
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Every human being and every other being is always a hair's breath away from enlightenment. Some joke, huh?
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A life with honor produces pain and joy. A life in pursuit of comfort produces a sickly nervousness.
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A feeling of freedom: today we are so good, there is so much room for bad.
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School gives kids a liberal education but as a medium for a field of competion.
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The belief that "all life is suffering" provides relief and happiness.
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Too much hope has attached itself to the word truth.
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Suppose one scientific "building block" law were true... The psychology of scientific activity.
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Invest in simplicity. Earnings are infinite.
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Desire hurts. ??
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Anxiety is a mixed bag ? of petty fears. Real fear washes you clean.
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Mysticism, the confrontation with the unknown, is our natural state. But through weakness or laziness or habit or "upbringing" or lack of self-reliance or petty-fear-entertainment, we partake in the social grand scam.
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Folly #1: striving for innocence.
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Death gives you infinite power. Unfor-tunately you can't use it.
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Each thrust of knowledge hides as much as it uncovers. An unknown will grows.
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Old men remembering better times only remember younger bodies.
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Fear is part of the play.
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"They're the same thing."
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"Enlightenment? What about endarkenment?"
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"My goal is to intelligently critisize what everyone considers best."
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What drives us on? The grand scam. (society)
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We never give up our ambition toward a goal. We just change it. ??
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Strength and weakness applied to moments. ... ??
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The value of life can only be evaluated through laughter.
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Without death you wouldn't exist.
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The main problem of modern times is that we're rich but not happy. How come? We have a lot of different colored clothes to parade around making a show of power and happiness but when we get home we're as miserable as before. We're coming to the point of realizing you can't make the world better you can only make it look better. What then? What happens? Perhaps something beautiful. ... ???
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Is old age a disease ?
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"True, but only higher, more worthy beings know this."
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"Not only does life have no meaning, but it's absolutely useless."
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You want to be good and only good. Impossible !!
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No, standard of nervousness.
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Standard of living raised ?
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Death, "the otherness", they're always, always at hand.
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Through every instant you are a reflection of the world.
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Constant warfare is a way of liberation too. ??
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We sleep among memories, expectations, rehearsals, emersed in the known.
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Being awake is to be emersed in the unknown.
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If 50% of pain cures follow a placebo effect, what good is research ?
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Everything that dies becomes the world.
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Are habits just skills?
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How expensive are your witchdoctors?
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There is no such thing as a "thought", only a kind of head dance.
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There is no such thing as a "mind" or "consciousness". There is only the world looking at itself.
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Is there an end to science? All the formulas figured out and proven without a doubt? No more "models" and theories, only truth. The phase of exploding expanding power started?
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How do you communicate true aloneness to another?
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Symptoms are the cure.
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Discorsive reason merely builds superficial structures which elaborate and hide them.
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Aphorisms attack foundations.
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The male principle includes not only duty, morality and control but joy, passion and laughter.
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We must all suffer. But from what? Not from ignorance, nor from sin, nor from distance from God, nor from injustice, nor poverty, nor from the cruelty of others, nor from sickness, nor even from physical pain. We suffer from happiness.
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The only spiritual question with religion is unemployed priests. ???
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My aim is to entice the best away from humanity.
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Power is the availability of pleasure.
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Is all desire, desire for power?
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How do you approach a society whose only claim to sanity is "everyone does it this way"?
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Not is there life after death but is there existence ? But exactly what exists?
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Do the categories hold? ....
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We live in a dream world of names, categories, comparisons, predictions,...
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Truth is only now. What others call truth is merely dreaming, which is a type of now.
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"But life doesn't have a point of view, only humanity does."
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"Not from the point of view of humanity but of life."
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The trouble begins when we try to get into another's shoes (words, ideas) or try to get someone in ours...
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The limits of science as truth.
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Controlled experiment = w/o environment...
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Metaphysical laughter.
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We are always trying to be more clever than we are
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Thought is conversation. Conversation implies company. Thought is fleeing from aloneness.
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Thoughtis a bad habit.
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What if death isn't perfect?
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Memory is a ghost.
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My enemies make me strong and happy.
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Yes,to think about death is useless. But to sense it, to look at it, in your center of centers ...
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Man invented God to justify not being eaten.
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Energy problems: a manual on how to court the gods.
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2. Either way is, was, will be good, bad for the world.
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1. Either way is a psychological necessity.
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Two objections to the "agony of decision":
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Pain and fear can be escaped with drugs or dreaming or driving energy and they will go away by themselves. But consider what an opportunity has been missed.
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Genuine interaction between people goes on without them knowing it.
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If an action is genuine people "sense" it.
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An aphorism is not a statement but a proposal. But then, isn't all thought and speech? ...
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You see yourself when you look at the world.
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You can't look at yourself. If you try you get dizzy or panicky. Look at the world instead.
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Yin and Yang - but why a morality of having to balence them? They are always balenced. And if you balence them within one person you seperate that person from the world. Probably the old spectre of "peace" is at work.
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Pain attracts you to your body.
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Follow your escape back to its birthplace and shadow.
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There is opposition, play, even antagonism between the sexes in Italy. In America - poison.
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Are both necessary to something else?
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Tao: Within even a day - flowing from sublime heights to decadence and back again.
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Pity not a rock, it is balenced in suffering and happiness. Pity no man, everyone is balenced in suffering and happiness.
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Ego = 'me'. I am not me.
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The value of Chiropractic is to make you believe again in your self-healing power.
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If scientists can believe in a thing which is both wave and particle, I can believe in a world that is totally my 'idea' yet other beings exist just like me, including bugs.
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Illness as a type of developing organ. 'I see better! I hear better!'
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I want life to give me presents.
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Follow science! Nothing exists bu the here and now. Nothing exists but me. The world is my idea. Nothing exists but what is observable.
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'School: 16 years of my life wasted. De-schooling: another 4.' 'But you started de-schooling very, very early.'
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Honor neither envy nor pity.
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The subjective life, that the world is me, I am the world and both die when I die, this is the blazing truth which all flee from, which is the terrible brilliant ground of my greatest happiness. But I am generous. Here, you may eat the same fruit I eat. Let's not bridge ourselves more than this, less the fruit become merely an idea and one chatters about it, too. No, stand in yourself and look out and breath ever so deeply and smile in golden wisdom and strength. For the fleeing and holding on to bridges is a fool's and coward's life.
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They didn't tell you that seeing God is also frightening.
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Pain? 1/100 chances of breaking through to a new happiness.
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Every cell in your body reflects your body and immediate environment.
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Accumulation, in quantity and kind, of power vs. exercise of power. Exercise, too often leads to decline. So does accumulation of exclusively one or two kinds of power. Zero exercise in this case can lead to a type of weakening. It's a dance.
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America: aggressive self-deception with a good conscience.
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Dream thought: Elements in dreams are a language. Symbols in dreams = language.
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It is essential for the myth to be true if its power is to take effect.
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Do I? Are mountains and trees enough? Am I beautiful?
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11 jun Surround oneself with beauty.
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10 jun If courage were most important for awakening, how do you explain drugs?
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What we are most proud of, our language, our manipulative abilities, are our worst enemies.
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And yet, death is impossible to face.
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Italians leave old and new ruins for everyone to see. It's what the world is about - new beings becoming ruins
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Perhaps he who dares to become different DOES become different. In body and right down to each nucleus of each cell. As such he is prone to strange diseases.
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Dreams are a vacation from reason.
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It is power that makes the difference; which seperates; lowers and elevates people.
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There is no creature that need be pitied or praised.
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This 'hopeful' existence we're all proud of is but a short rather insignificant ripple in the ocean of time
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Concentration camps: The nazis wanted to create an external image of their own wretched souls.
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Evil is as sacred as good.
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Develop an 'anti-religion'
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Unfinished business wracks me all day long.
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Perhaps the biggest most crushing lie is that all we are is human.
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I criticize mindless entertainment, yet long for it this day and can't have it
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THOTS 1991 (Transcibed from black pocket notebook)
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They think spirited means spear-headed.
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Be quiet and look at the heart of a child.
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With all our gadgets and goals and "human potentials",we are in danger of having a less satisfying life than a mideavalpeasant.
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Winning doesn't increase strength.
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Discovery occurs more through courage and openness thanbrains.
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True love and happiness hides from those who anxiouslypursue them.
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The world is food for the heart.
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Everything outside this room provides a fantasyworldfor us.
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Fantasy is the food of the spirit.
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A yearning of the heart: To see the world continuously.
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We see the world in frames, like a movie camera.
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Alertness and abandon.
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The philosopher doesn't want to mix with the elements.
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Normality is our morality.
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Professional wisdom:
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Commonly held beliefs are more vital than truth.
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Self scientists see evidence directly.
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Social scientists depend on hearsay.
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"I am a fountain."
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"If you are a good scientist, you will be safe fromchaos. ""
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Suppose you were the only one to die. All the rest,bugs included, live forever.
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Loyalty to one's body rules out a belief in a previous-,after-, etc., life.
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A million years brings a thousand different spirits.
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In school, spiritual uniqueness is getting 78.651% on atest.
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A mythological question: eaten by a beautiful monster?
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A child matures by spending alot of time close tosomeone who is mature.
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A word is a hole in the world.
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His destructive hate came from a festering fear aboutsurvival.
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"All this worry about survival. Give it up. Nothingsurvives. Fight, by all means, but enjoy the fighting."
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The world is not a God, but the soil of Gods.
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One God leads to no God leads to many Gods, etc., butthe world remains eternal.
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"Can you swallow a universe that is forever sometimesreasonable and sometimes insane?"
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Beware, professionals are required to believe theirlies.
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The atom: last of the reasonable particles.
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The longer the thought the more human it becomes.
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Inspirational block: trying to rake a desert.
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John Chapko
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"I love humanity. It's people I can't stand."
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Stimulus-response psychology is thoughtless.
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Scientists think they're the only ones who knowanything.
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2 marCommitment:
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The world is mixed up; Power goes to thejuggler.
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Just because their belief has created a Truth doesn'tmean it's permanent.
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Our thoughts are linked with a wandering pleasure.
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The scientific conscience restricts the right of freethought.
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Any jerk who can follow orders can be financiallyindependent.
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Financial independence equals emotional independence?
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Science is weighty.
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Alot deadens.
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A little discipline anchors.
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Believe the face more than the personality.
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A mood is shadowed by its opposite.
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"Secure your deepest happiness! Hide it!"
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How long does it take for the world to return exactly,exactly, as it is right now? How many returns will it make, hasit made already?
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Infintiy is big.
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Aphoristic thought stimulates, fertilizes and plantsseeds.
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Science allows control.
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Literature entertains AND moves.
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Philosophy attempts to found.
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Day dreams are more inspirational.
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Night dreams are more substantial.
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If God exists, why are we so nervous?
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If death is coming, why are we so calm and peaceful?
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God and death live in the same place.
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And I smile.
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Freedom surprises me,
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From inside,
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I've been alive since the beginning of time.
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Except in a society of space-cadets, a baby is less vulnerable than a job applicant.
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The sun and death blind.
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Death joking.
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Excitement;
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Tickling,
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Not your immortal soul, but your mortal spirit.
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Original sin has been replaced by original nothingness.
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All is one; but I'm one better.
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Fated to be half-immersed in slimy civilization; and half liking it.
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Clairvoyants have a future without surprises.
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Sweet mortality.
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Birds chirping;
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Wind at dawn,
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He imagined himself as a warrior, but found only a worrier.
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So much of later life is fantasy play. Let children be children, and after they will be free to be adults.
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Parent and child mature each other.
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Equality, freedom, and justice negate.
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Feminism is meant to break the spirit of man.
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Peace depends on how content the spirit is not to feel its existence. Hence the entertainment age is very peaceful.
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What do you get from a throwaway culture? - Human garbage.
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Follow your son before you lead him.
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B: "No need to be cute, just say there are no rules."
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A: "The only rule is that there are no rules."
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Uncontrollable pleasure.
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5 jan
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To wound, emotionally or physically, touches deeply.
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1988
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In terms of eternity the death of the human race would be sad but no sadder than the death of a loved one. It's life and death would reoccur eternally.
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Going back to the stone age wouldn't be the end of the world. In fact it might be the beginning.
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We flee from chaos into thought.
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He'd rather look at stars than think.
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He expressed himself in as few words as necessary.
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Understanding parent, Squelches a response, Misses the child.
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Scientific positivism and its self-indulgent mother, metaphysical speculation, are symptoms of the breakdown of human communication. Whether stacking elements or dreaming, you don't have to look into someone's eyes.
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I am my body. My body is a member of the world. Will I "live" in a dissipated body?
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Wealth is measured not only by what you produce but how happy you are to do without.
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A father that hides himself loses a son.
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Nuclear war is about as unthinkable as death.
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Societal nervous degeneration: "Can do" to "had to do" to "do do".
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What we don't know is a mystery.
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There is a kind of happiness only available to the rich and another kind only available to the poor. Similarly, to us moderns and to ancient people.
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Our problem: how to be simple.
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My home: one pretty view that I return to again and again. àà
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Truth is the world.
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If the world is not logical, then truth is not logical.
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Eternal reoccurrence implies a limit to quality.
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"Space cadets- technology is a passing fancy."
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absurdity is deep.
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Meanings are cheap;
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Political intolerance is an emotional substitute for racism.
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Americans are nice, they don't get angry. They express themselves with lawsuits, divorce, infidelity and guns.
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Emotional freedom requires an alienation from people close to you; a feeling of powerlessness often follows.
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Americans need space for their resentment.
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you can't help someone who feels spiritually powerless.
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No matter how we change it, ours is neither the best nor worst but the only possible world.
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The sentence resists slipping into a syllogism.
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his child, an apprentice.
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The Father is a master artist;
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"I see."
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I see.
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What is the difference between me and someone exactly like me, living exactly the same life, in exactly the same world. If it cannot be said that I exist again, at least I'm in good company.
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Eternal life and eternal reoccurrence exclude each other.
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Parenting is fun, as long as you don't feel any obligation to your kids.
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Breaking a habit is like birthing yourself.
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A streak of violence imprinted on nature.
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Wisdom lurks in silence.
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Discipline- Self-discipline, applied like a wall, grounds.
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growing larger.
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a slight feeling of nausea
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infinite me's and you's:
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A universe infinitely large,
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And vs. or- My wisdom is a dance of doubt and belief. For them, either doubt or belief.
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Wisdom- The discussion of wisdom is no longer an art. For most, wisdom is to fasten to our idols and beliefs: patriotism, primacy of knowledge, science, logic, goodness, "freedom", progress, equality; and reject all else. For the few: to doubt everything. No one has heard that gods come and go, into and out of existence, like moonlight on waves.
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1987 Philosophy- Love of wisdom; not analysis of thought and knowledge.
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A belief in an afterlife can expand ones spirit but not one's life.
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Dreaming is intimately involved with the body.
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Modern parents must deschool themselves.
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The "dark" ages: why did so many people for so many years not pursue math-science. It may be blasphemy but perhaps they were happy.
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26jl
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Dreams are experiences.
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12jl
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We tailor our philosophical style to the shape of our truth.
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30 years is no greater than 70 and a day is infinitely longer than both.
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The impotent need explosives.
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We have yet to see the nuclear era.
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Excess freedom scatters families.
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Beware of admiring weaklings.
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Plants want to live and not be eaten.
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All of them are not crazy, just most.
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American freedom food.
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I want to fully and deeply know my wife and my children and there is so little time.
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Self-science looks to the obvious, math-science covers it.
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On awakening, within seconds, a dream passes from great importance to inconsequence.
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If the world is at bottom not logical, nor systematic, nor orderly, then math-science is at best anthropomorphic and at worst an act of coercion.
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My objection to science is not bad applications of the "truth" but bad "truth".
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Modern man is an auto-mobile.
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The preconception of math-science is that the world is essentially "dead"; that of self-science that the world is "alive".
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McDonald's has nuclear war food.
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He trusts that he is and will be where he's supposed to be. He trusts his revolt as one of those places.
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A mother and father gain their power from the child.
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Math-scientists, during the few moments they are awake, deaden themselves, then fall back into dreaming.
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A self-scientist follows and does not push.
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Two self-scientists will necessarily disagree. The dialogue is for stimulation, not confirmation.
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"Self-science is not living in a room full of mirrors but discovering the link between your center and the world. The method is simple: stop, wake up, open your eyes and ears."
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We move easily and happily between the far and the immediate. They feel trapped at one or the other.
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What a doctor knows about your body is infinitesimal compared to what your body knows.
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Love deepens through loyalty, not luck.
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TV news leads to an overtraveled center.
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An aphorism should be like a gem.
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The answer to the question, "what is man?", will deny him so much.
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The knowledge that science gains is that of a conqueror.
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Parenting is not dropping your kids off at school.
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Genetic Wisdom: Isn't it wonderful that people who don't like kids don't have them.
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Going in their direction spirit disappears, in my direction spirit fills.
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They have succeeded in slandering motherhood.
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Let's keep God out of the picture.
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I hope for an end-aphorism, the deepest and the highest, the one at which I can stop and relish forever. I get a good-natured jokester. And I like being the strait man.
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I review my past thoughts not to be consistent but to remember a sensibility that too often gets lost.
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Green frees us from thinking.
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The pain leaves, warmth remains.
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The window is open only a crack. I put my face close and smell the sweet outside air.
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"There is an afterlife and you trust it to God."
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Most man-made objects are stamped while natural objects aren't.
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Pain is exquisitely accurate biofeedback.
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Parmenides' indivisible world belongs to newborns and those who are awake. The interaction is the most vital possible, the well most resplendent.
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The word spirit makes you sacred.
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Only a few rogue philosophies have value. But when they do, they excel all popular ones. For example, Nietzche's.
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The aphoristic method is more interested in encountering one's spirit than being a link in some philosophical system.
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We have a body-rhythm which allows us to dream standing up with open eyes. At each upbeat we momentarily awaken, check out our boring world, make adjustments in the machine and then happily return to our music.
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Dreaming keeps us in touch with our music.
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Our best psychic link is home.
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Waking up is a shock.
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Education makes people nervous. At heart it is a false promise.
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There exists both mechanics and gods, but neither has a grand design for our world.
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Socialization doesn't start with school, but a little before that - with the parent's acceptance of school.
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I have friends who I've never seen. They lived 100 years ago. They lived 2500 years ago.
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How many big "truths" are believed to add a little excitement to one's life?
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As a child learns to talk he will learn to read. But is reading equal to the irresistible power of speech.
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In a moment of frustration I wish for a terminal disease, to believe again that I will die.
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"Americans are smart at doing stupid things."
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Believing that existence will vanish after world war III is akin to believe that existence depends on the national culture.
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What I would like to see is a merging of high spirituality and simple pleasures.
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Happy unafraid people don't voluntarily work like dogs.
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Marriage to them is an emotional partnership. When the returns on the emotional investment are no longer satisfactory, the partnership is dissolved.
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Those who are close to the vitality of seeing eternal nothingness fill themselves up with some thing else: repetitive activity, or small goals, or pain, dulling such that death is not so frightful.
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Time passes quickly at 40 because 40 years can be seen as one lump and seems so little.
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Goodness is a parent's curse.
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What is the attraction of truth? Why do some of us crave it so? Its cleanliness? Its power? Or a kind of delicious fantasy just out of reach?
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High technology and Icarus.
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skin Truth: fun.
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Brain Truth: mathematics.
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Heart Truth: poetry.
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Acting is useful: making believe we're the spearhead of a new renaissance moves us forward.
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Aphoristic writing: to squeeze out the essence of my spirit.
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Everything that is exciting is dangerous.
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Most people spend their whole life looking for the answer. I spend my time trying to rid myself of an interfering question. It is certainty which is most frightening and necessary.
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It is a hard thing to say but I would miss a world without the poor.
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Happiness is essential to our fate. We want neither to be more nor less than what we are.
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Your fate whispers an invitation to join.
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Too much faith in an innate intelligence is as disastrous as none.
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Abortion and bombing: what you don't see won't hurt them.
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"We had to do something." This justification for bombing a city reflects a national nervous disease.
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The AMA is the American Veterinarian Association.
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We look on the beginning and end of life as if they didn't exist.
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15ap Even if we were absolutely secure and knew it we could still be nervous.
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Talking, even to yourself, implies being seen and heard. It separates you from your well.
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Messages in dreams seem to come from another person.
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Americans flee from marriage because it is not a secure place.
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"Science will reverse the aging process" - How easy some words roll off the tongue.
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It is dangerous to live close to someone. Vulnerabilities show. Secret resentment easily builds up. What most people do: make believe those who are far, are close.
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The greatest nervous boredom comes from the lifelong repetition of self-deception.
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Scientists have a double blind faith: they are blind to everything outside their faith and blind to the fact that they have a faith.
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Professionals with little character can't stand the tension of uncertainty, so they latch on to a truth.
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Certainty is comfortable and dangerous.
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They have broken apart the world so much that it takes too long to put it back together
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The pride of a man, in his word and in his courage, speaks to all ages.
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A belief in rebirth hinders the feeling of being reborn.
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Fate can also be absurd.
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The attainment of absolute goodness makes possible a devil.
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Spirit cannot be learnt.
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My faith in life is not that it necessarily will come out good, but that it will come out right.
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Failure unbalances.
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Success unbalances.
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Intimacy is private.
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Blind hope drives us to boredom.
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He had a hard wall of cheerfulness.
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After we reach the absolute preciousness of our life there is a second explosion - the life and death of a loved one.
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I find the man-woman discussion either boring, demeaning or offensive.
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Our political movements seek victory of one extreme or another, but there are only two possible extremes, life and death.
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I slip in and out of awareness. I get distracted. I distract myself. I run or hide. Soon I remember again and find my way home.
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In the vast absurdity of time and space a human heart beats.
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Knowledge disconnects.
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It is a great blessing to live among people who are free, happy and poor.
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You need to own all your time, even that which you give to others, even that which is taken away from you.
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The body sends pain to the back in order to get adjusted.
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MD's say they know so little and act like they know everything.
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Modern medical perspective has puritanical roots. The body is weak and evil and tortures you with pain. Salvation is in the world of ideals, of scientific models.
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Americans prefer a space defense to 3 feet of earth. Holes in the ground are definitely not "upbeat".
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Spaced out Americans:
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Cartoon food.
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Americans are afraid of being close to each other. Lack of practice leads to more fear.
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I gain vitality from my hate of it.
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I gain courage from acceptance of death.
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The origin of the masters is always a solitary explorer.
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"We spend half our waking life rationalizing cowardice."
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A certain indifference to philosophical argument is needed to enjoy life and its surprises.
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Our capitalists have found culture unproductive. It makes people lazy.
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The old tree finally yielded to the winds of Africa, its belly crushing the small truck like some bug.
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Some pain is too deep and private to talk or write about.
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A patients sometimes thinks an x-ray shows his depth but it still only shows a surface. His depth is always available, and insight.
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High technology: what attracts us is the play not the use.
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We project ourselves onto the world to feel more solid.
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Scientists are jealous of their knowledge. They rarely face the uncomfortable thought that an opposite system of knowledge, may be equally true, and equally false.
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Earth smells, a transparent sky and a gentle balmy breeze intoxicate us, the warm sun transports us to summer and summery places.
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What bonds society? The notion of super-animals.
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Running scared.
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What is dangerous is our tempo. We move on before we have a chance to dwell, or absorb, or love.
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discipline solidifies.
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In sleep action is suspended.
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One person was unafraid of death but was afraid of failure, authority, spiders, unemployment, rejection, the dark, heights, self-assertion and foreigners. The other person was afraid of death and nothing else.
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Politics: Three more people join the left and add to its agitation and then three more people get agitated and join the right and add to its agitation, etc.
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A patient recovers from a illness through laughter, or family support or a change of mood, and the medical scientists are ready to credit some "hormone". They just don't have the capacity to deal with the human spirit.
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Science is saturated with purpose.
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The time is becoming ripe for the best artists and philosophers. No longer will they be distracted by fame and success.
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Beneath psychic fadism is a technological wish: quick, free, painless control over people and environment.
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Scientists would like us not to exist. How manageable human affairs would then be!
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I would like youth to feel old age and the old to feel young.
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Eating kills.
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There are two realms of wisdom: before and after.
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A collection of aphorisms, being allogical, leaves spaces for others to grow.
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The danger of scientific thought is being blinded by models.
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Fame is a high-pitched distraction. The best will always consider it carefully.
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Sin always refers to a hovering powerful being who decides "life or death". This is a fantasy because there is only life and then death and in every case the former is too short and the latter too long.
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Fantasy is death upside-down. It is full of colorful, interesting, powerful, dramatic, unreal people, things and events, while death is full of nothing and real as stone. Fantasy is the salve for the sight of death and death infuses life into fantasy.
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America's main problem is that of a spoiled child.
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The mountain is covered with snow and clouds. It appears like a huge animal and its call is frightening.
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The wealth of nations is not the sum of its goods and services but the heart and resiliency of its people.
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I believe Italian expressiveness is intimately connected with the summer sun, the sea and happiness.
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Ideally, if you listen to your body, it will start flowing in an attempt to interest you. At some point you realize that the body, the flow and you are the same.
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Thought requires a suspension of breathing - you don't want the world to interfere.
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Medical doctors perform magic.
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is your head." "Do I have an empty head?" "Yes, it is necessary to see."
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"Imagine yourself looking out from inside a hole. That hole
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Color TV makes the world look dull.
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Solitary confinement is supposed to be the worst of punishments. Sometimes I don't think so.
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Green mountains sculptured into terraces bathed in sunlight.
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his father's ashes had been spread over the land. Each anniversary he would go to a hill with a beautiful view and think of his father.
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The subconscious gives symbols, signals and signs without revealing itself or its goal. Examples are a dream, a body mood, an idea. If there is good faith the symbols are absorbed, the signals listened to and the signs remembered.
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Each month a part of your child dies.
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The brilliant sun washes my world.
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