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It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are.

— Wei Wu Wei The Tenth Man : The Great Joke (1966)

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Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.

Why Lazarus Laughed: The Essential Doctrine, Zen — Advaita — Tantra (1960)

There seems never to have been a time at which sentient beings have not escaped from the dungeon of individuality.

All Else Is Bondage : Non-Volitional Living (1964)

In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow — and that is likely to hurt.

Posthumous Pieces (1968)

What is your trouble? Mistaken identity.

Ask the Awakened: the Negative Way (1963)

There is no mystery whatever — only inability to perceive the obvious.

All Else Is Bondage : Non-Volitional Living (1964)

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