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“When we are telling something about others, we are telling a lot about ourselves too. "The Sun rises and sets each day." This sounds like a statement about the Sun. But it is actually a statement about us, about our planet. It tells that we and our planet is moving, not the Sun.”

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“Logic is like a mouse. It can cut through anything. Ganesha is the Lord of inward logic (Vitarka). Seekers on the path of knowledge must use the mouse to cut through their own illusion (like sages) instead of trying to cut through the universe (like western scientists).”

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“Plot is the artificial reduction of life’s complexity and randomness. It is a way to give aesthetic form to reality.”

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Book:Red Pill

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“We think and speak in a certain language. So language seems to be a natural thing. It is not! It's a set of symbols decided by the society. It's the operating system of society just like windows or android. Silence (no speech, no thought) is the only way to log out of society and log in to the universe.”

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Author:Shunya

“Things coming into your sight are coming from nothingness and things going out of your sight are going into nothingness.”

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“While you are in a dream, everything seems real. If dreams are just a projection of your mind, this world is also a projection of your mind. The people around you are not real. Competing with them is like competing with your own shadow.”

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“-...Why do you uglify yourself? You are beautiful too.” -I could be more beautiful, but I fell victim to natural selection.”

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Book:Pandemiconium: Viral Conspiracy

Source: Pandemiconium: Viral Conspiracy

“If your eyes can see something, is it real? If all your five senses confirm it, is it real? If five billion sets of senses (people) confirm it, is it real? If a holy book confirms it, is it real? It's a hide and seek game. The only reality is hiding behind illusions which are confirming each other as real.”

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Author:Shunya

“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.”

Book:Learning All the Time

Source: Learning All the Time

“After a point you have to lose your ideas about gods to meet real gods, you have to lose spiritual knowledge to find the soul, you have to lose everything that can be lost to find that which can't be lost.”

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Author:Shunya

“Suppose you are in your room alone and somebody walks in. Your behaviour changes depending on who is with you in the scene. When we are with others, we are playing different roles. When we are alone, we are preparing, rehearsing and thinking about the roles. We have forgotten who we really are!”

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Author:Shunya