“But you know, the biggest ego trip going is getting rid of your ego. And the joke of it all is: your ego doesn't exist! There's nothing to get rid of.”
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“Human intelligence has a very serious limitation. That limitation is that it is a scanning system of conscious attention which is linear... The universe does not come at us in lines. It comes at us in a multidimensional continuum in which everything is happening altogether everywhere at once… And so long as we are stuck with that form of wisdom we cannot deal with more than a few variables at once.”
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“In seeing that you cannot control your mind, you realize there is no controller. What you took to be the thinker of thoughts is just one of the thoughts… We get into that bind because we have a grammatical rule that verbs have to have subjects… We always insist that there is this subject called the knower. And without a knower there can’t be knowing. Well that’s just a grammatical rule. It isn’t the rule of nature. In nature there’s just knowing, like you’re feeling it.”
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“It does not occur to the ordinary civilized person to regard himself or herself as an expression of the whole universe. It should be obvious that we cannot exist except in an environment of earth, air, water, and solar temperature.”
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“It should be obvious that the human being "goeswith" the rest of the universe, even though we say in popular speech, "I came into this world." Now, it is not true that you came into this world, you came out of it in the same way as a flower comes out of a plant or fruit comes out of a tree.”
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“We are like people eating menus instead of dinners.”
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“We have not realized, therefore, that our environment is not something other than ourselves. In assuming that it is, we have made a great mistake and are now paying the price for it.”
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“When an organ is working properly, you don’t feel it. If you see your eye, you’ve got cataract. If you hear your ears, you’ve got singing in your ears... When you are fully functioning, you are unaware of the organ. When you’re thinking clearly, your brain isn’t getting in your way.”
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“You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.”