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“It’s like the ball that throws the dog that chases it…” — he was talking about the mind

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“Sometimes, in order that the sun doesn’t burn my face right off, I wear sunscreen. Inevitably, later in the day, it gets into my eyes. And then I rub them. And then the Buddhist dogma ‘Life is Suffering’ suddenly becomes explicitly true. In...

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Like the shining risen moon in the night sky, your soul’s bravery, her beauty, illumine my heart, resurrecting it from mortal concern, and lifting it into immortality.

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The children… are really old adults… … and the adults are really old children.

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What are the powers you actually obey? What are the powers you submit to? What powers do you revere or respect … or emulate?

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If you reverse-engineer English, as if it were the product of an alien civilization… a technology … an array of advanced but dangerous methods… you would recover the keys to decrypt its origins and functions as they relate to commerce, religion, and...