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Back on the high seas with this book which I must say is quite a relief. The sea is the most important character in this series, in my opinion anyway, the Aubrey/Maturin friendship is the other great delight to me and this book has both in spades.
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Kyabjé Künzang Dorje Rinpoche told me “Vajrayana is not ordinary and so ordinary language cannot be used. Vajrayana is the poetry of existence beyond space and time. Vajrayana is every art and you must be practising every art. If you do not
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
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and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
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“Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH...”
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“Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.”
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“my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.”
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