The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
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If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
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I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
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It must be obvious... that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.
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The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.
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But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
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So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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