Мерцание

Век живи — век учись.

Не принимай жизнь слишком серьёзно.

Терпение и труд всё перетрут.

Знание — сила.

See how letting go of the world is peaceful.

— Stop it! This is your pain, this is your burning hand, it's right here!

— I'm going to my cave, I'm going to my cave to find my power animal...

— No! Don't deal with this the way those dead people do! Come on!

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— This is the greatest moment of your life, man, and you're off somewhere missing it!

It's important to not let meditation become a search for self-improvement or better experience, or even relief from suffering. Real meditation is just a recognition of the nature of mind — the way consciousness already is: open, without center, unconfined, free of self.

And if it doesn't feel that way — examine the basis of that feeling. Where is it? What is the condition of its appearance?

Aren't you identical to that space?

The more you're focused on yourself — the more miserable you are. It's as simple as that.

...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.

Самое главное в столкновении со злом — не стать злом.