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“You can hold back from the suffering of the world, you have permission to do so, and it is in accordance with your nature. But perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering that you could have avoided.”
― Kafka Franz

“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
― Noam Chomsky

“Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret”
― hafez

“The beauty of You delights me. The sight of You amazes me. For the Pearl does this... and the Ocean does that.”
― - Hafiz 1320-1389

“There is no seer or anything seen / no speaker or anything spoken / the appearance of buddhas and also their teachings / are merely what we imagine 44. Those who view such things as real / they don’t see the Buddha / nor do those who imagine nothing / only those who transform their existence.”
― Red Pine, The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary

“The victorious ones have said
That emptiness is the relinquishing of all views.
For whomever emptiness is a view,
That one has achieved nothing.”
― Nāgārjuna, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā

“Ultimate truth is not a statement, nor is ultimate truth what is expressed by a statement.”   “The”
― Thomas Cleary, The Lankavatara Sutra