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This is why I go so willingly into the house of dreams: I admire them for their aptitude for non-discrimination. It is in their house that the equal light from before the guilty feeling reigns. Neither pride, nor shame.
Hélène Cixous, Stigmata: Escaping Texts
This gentleman is a sage... Life and death are great affairs, and yet they are no change to him. Though heaven and earth flop over and fall down, it is no loss to him. He sees clearly into what has no falsehood and does not shift with things. He takes it as fate that things should change, and he holds fast to the source.
Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Zhuangzi, Watson tr. (Ch 5)
We humans appear as particularly lively, intense, aware nodes of relation in an infinite network of connections, simple or complicated, direct or hidden, strong or delicate, temporary or very long-lasting. A web of connections, infinite but locally fragile, with and among everything — all beings — including what we generally class as things, objects.
Ursula K. Le Guin, Late in the Day
To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception
How you observe, how you investigate, that is the real thing. That is, perception can take place only when there is no division between the observer and the observed. Perception can take place only in the very act of exploring. To explore implies that there is no division between the observer and the observed.
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Total Freedom
Literate man, civilized man, tends to restrict and to separate functions, whereas tribal man has freely extended the form of his body to include the universe.
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media
Man’s obsessive consciousness of, and insistence on being, a separate self is the final and most formidable obstacle to the unitive knowledge of God.
Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy
What is created by illusion and what is created by causes? Where does each come from and where does it go? How can there be real existence in something factitious like a reflection, which is only seen in conjunction with something else and not seen in its absence?
Śāntideva, Bodhicaryāvatāra, Crosby & Skilton tr. (9:143-144)
