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“If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.”

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According to limited available information, Quentin S. Crisp, born in 1972, is a person whose identity and profession have not been publicly documented in detail. more

“If future history is not to be just one damned thing after another in space, then what we really have to do is in some way overcome this linear experience of time that makes all existence a quest for something that will never be found.And philosophies such as Zen seem to hint that this is possible.”

Ifs Way Philosophy Seems Found Space Existence Overcoming Just One Quests Hints Linear

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.”

Ifs Mean Seems Imagination Buddhism Aspect Overcoming Dwelling Linear Fertility Linear Time

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“If you look at the ox-herding pictures - specifically the newer set of ten pictures rather than the older set of eight - you see that after the blank circle of the void, the cycle comes back to a river flowing by the roots of a tree (both strong symbols of nature, the life-force, the unconscious) and to the wanderer returning to the market place, which is the realm of human society and activity.”

Ifs Humans Looks Strong Force Tree Activity Ten Rivers Roots Eight Circles Symbols Realms Unconscious Cycles Void Blank Human Society Wanderers

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“Some Buddhists, however, never seem to get past the void, and I suppose I view this as a kind of Buddhist 'Old Testament' that I don't especially like.”

Kind Seems Past Views Buddhist Void Testament Old Testament

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“I suppose what I can say is that I do feel I have a natural spiritual sensibility.”

Feels I Can Spiritual Natural Sensibility

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“I'm not claiming anything like sainthood - merely a native perception.”

Perception Native Sainthood

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“I never went to church as a child. I did not .”

Children Church

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“I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult.”

Differences Adults Catholic Protestants

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“I do not think that my spiritual apprehensions are as dogmatically cultural as those of many people who have been brought up strictly in a particular tradition.”

People Thinking Has Beens Spiritual Particular Tradition Apprehension

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“You might call this innocence. I had a sense of another world that had not been spoken of to me.”

World Might Innocence Another World

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