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“If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.”

“The entrance into Zen is the grasping of one's essential nature. It is absolutely impossible, however, to come to a clear understanding of our essential nature by any intellectual or philosophical method. It is accomplished only by the experience of self-realization through zazen.”

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Book:The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans

Source: The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans

“Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.”

“Realization is not knowledge about the universe, but the living experience of the nature of the universe. Until we have such living experience, we remain dependent on examples, and subject to their limits.”

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Book:The Crystal and the Way of Light: Sutra, Tantra, and Dzogchen

Source: The Crystal and the Way of Light: Sutra, Tantra, and Dzogchen

“Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.”

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Book:James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

Source: James and Dewey on Belief and Experience