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An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.


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The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.




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When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.



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The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.



The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.



The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth, " and so it goes away. Puzzling.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth, " and so it goes away. Puzzling.



To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting.

To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting.



When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.



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We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with noartistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.



You can’t really think hard about what you’re doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn’t see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling.

You can’t really think hard about what you’re doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn’t see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling.





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