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“The Buddha asks us to see things as they really are. He does not ask us to cling to optimistic views of eternity or pessimistic views of annihilation but simply to examine our experience.”

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Book:The Heart Sutra
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“All right. It’s not just that I dont have to write things down. There’s more to it than that. What you write down becomes fixed. It takes on the constraints of any tangible entity. It collapses into a reality estranged from the realm of its creation. It’s a marker. A roadsign. You have stopped to get your bearings, but at a price. You’ll never know where it might have gone if you’d left it alone to go there. In any conjecture you’re always looking for weaknesses. But sometimes you have the sense that you should hold off. Be patient. Have a little faith. You really want to see what the conjecture itself is going to drag up out of the murk. I dont know how one does mathematics. I dont know that there is a way. The idea is always struggling against its own realization. Ideas come with an innate skepticism, they dont just go barreling ahead. And these doubts have their origin in the same world as the idea itself. And that’s not something you really have access to. So the reservations that you yourself in your world of struggle bring to the table may actually be alien to the path of these emerging structures. Their own intrinsic doubts are steering-mechanisms while yours are more like brakes. Of course the idea is going to come to an end anyway. Once a mathematical conjecture is formalized into a theory it may have a certain luster to it but with rare exceptions you can no longer entertain the illusion that it holds some deep insight into the core of reality. It has in fact begun to look like a tool.”

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Book:The Passenger
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“Because memory and feeling are so uncertain, so subjective, we always rely on some reality - let's call it an alternate reality - to prove events to be true. To what extent the facts we take to be true really are, and to what extent they are facts merely because we call them so, such a distinction cannot be made. Therefore, in order to recognize a reality as reality, we need another reality to relativize the former. But this second reality requires a third as a basis. An infinite chain is created in our consciousness, and maintaining it creates the impression that we exist. However, something may happen that breaks this chain and then we feel lost. What's real? Is reality on this side of the broken chain or on the other?”

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Book:South of the Border, West of the Sun
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“Ako ostanemo sami sa sobom, bez knjiga, mi ćemo se odmah zaplesti, izgubiti - nećemo znati kome da se pridružimo, čega da se pridržavamo, šta da volimo a šta da mrzimo, šta da poštujemo i šta da preziremo? Nama je teško čak i da budemo ljudi, pravi ljudi svojim telom i krvlju; stidimo se toga, smatramo to za sramotu i uspinjemo se da budemo neki nerealni svečovek. Mi smo mrtvorođenčad, a odavno se već i ne rađamo od živih očeva, i to nam se sve više i više sviđa. Prilagođavamo se ukusu. Uskoro ćemo izmisliti da se rađamo nekako od ideje.”

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Book:Zapisi iz mrtvog doma; Zapisi iz podzemlja
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