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“What we do in our lives and our work is greatly infuenced by metaphors-the pictures we have in our minds about how the world works or ought to work. Often these images are more real to us than reality itself.”

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Book:Learning All the Time

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“We see what our mind shows us, nothing less, nothing more. If there is a camel out there but our mind decides to show it as cow, we will see cow, not camel. We don't know what is actually out there. It maybe God Himself. But our limited mind shows us limited things.”

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“If you can perceive something with all your 5 senses, you call that thing real. If you still doubt it, senses say, "Ask other people. They can confirm that what you see is real." But those other people are also being perceived by you through your 5 senses only. Who will confirm that they are real? You can be sure only about your own existence. Others may be just an illusion.”

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“for we are all divorced from life, we are all cripples, every one of us, more or less. We are so divorced from it that we feel at once a sort of loathing for real life, and so cannot bear to be reminded of it. Why, we have come almost to looking upon real life as an effort, almost as hard work, and we are all privately agreed that it is better in books.”

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Book:Notes from Underground

Source: Notes from Underground

“As your soul becomes more and more aware, magical coincidences start happening: Things that happen in your life seem related to thoughts that occur in your mind. Ultimately you realize that you are the creator of your own reality.”

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“Your body is like a tiny train coach. Eyes are its windows. All the people are coaches of the same train which is moving on curved tracks of Time. Curves are so complicated that the same train appears like many trains racing with each other. That is the illusion of Space and Time.”

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“A, B, C, D... These alphabets are everywhere in a book. But our mind reads whole words and sentences. Similarly, God and godliness is everywhere. Our mind only sees people, animals and things.”

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Author:Shunya

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