No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ~Richard Owen
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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No one was ever lost on a straight road. ~Indian Proverb
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought of freedom, in that hope itself possess. All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength. The scorn of danger, and united hearts. The surest presage of the good they seek. ~William Cowper
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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When there is no thought, the kundalini rises. When you create a vacuum, something will be drawn into it. The less thought you have, the more kundalini will flow through the chakras, the shushumna. ~Frederick Lenz
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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