Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

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We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.

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The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

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The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

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Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

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Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

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To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

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