Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute and yet is relative, in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

The journey not the arrival matters.

The journey, not the arrival, matters.

So the darkness shall be the light and the stillness the dancing.

So the darkness shall be the light and the stillness the dancing.

A toothache or a violent passion is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes its c

A toothache or a violent passion is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance, or insignificance.

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    With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

    With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

    Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience.

    Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience.

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