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What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.

— Deepak Chopra

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Buddha didn’t teach that life hurts because of pain; it hurts because the cause of suffering hasn’t been examined.

Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal.

There’s no need to call it “higher” consciousness. A better term is “total” consciousness, the ground state of everything in existence.

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The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

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