Soundbites
Is anything ultimately any more than a relatively brief synergistic exercise in temporal perception?
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There is usually more to most stories: listen closely, ask questions, avoid rushing to judgment.
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Do not assume a life successful when founded upon greed, violence, corruption, and lies.
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Every seed is born anew, each filled with the same ever-present, indivisible, undying essence.
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The bliss of an empty septic tank is beyond all words; surely, one of the finer meditations.
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You can do just about anything once and awhile, but you cannot do anything all the time.
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Responding, not reacting, to the body-mind’s chemical-electrical storms is the challenge.
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Minding your own business, keeping your nose on your own face, is always good policy.
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In the grand scheme of things, it does not matter one iota that we think we know so much.
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Is there anything that can be said or done that cannot be used for some foul purpose or another?
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What is this human predisposition, this fascination, this addiction, with needing to know?
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To be bound by the perception of one’s origin is inconceivable for a critical thinker.
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Rejoin the beasts if you would choose the serenity of the garden over the chaos of mind.
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What is the human paradigm but imagination measuring itself in every way imaginable.
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Subtleties within subtleties lead to the final subtlety. to where all future-pasts cease.
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Measured or unmeasured, remembered or forgotten, the moment is ever the same.
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Disengage, undo, unfasten, unlock, untie, uncouple, extricate, separate … Now.
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When it comes to hierarchies of power, loyalty often proves to be a one-way street.
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The young are conditioned to play the game with every conceivable lie time can concoct.
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What is the human paradigm but a dream ensconced in the synapses of mortal hardware.
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How many sages are herded like cats into wisdom by all their countless foolish errors?
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The one-percenters have embraced destruction and chaos for a few mansions more.
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In conflict, always expect, always anticipate, always mitigate, treacherous means.
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For those seeking truth, it is not about being more as much as it is about being less.
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Time, what was that, anyway?
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Yet another suit dreaming of conquest.
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A world less and less ready for its future.
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Saṃsāra: The cycle of aimless drifting, wandering or mundane existence.
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Mitote: A cacophony of voices in your head, all talking, few if any listening.
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To know or not to know, that is the question.
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There are no masters, just beginners with a more astute eye.
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Ignorance is not always bliss.
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After childhood’s end: torture and taxes; death is the least of it.
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Launch your Self into the space within and without.
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Full cup, empty cup, no cup.
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The food industry is only too willing to poison you if you allow it.
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Labels are for those caught in the web of identity.
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Yet another law unwritten in invisible ink.
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It is what it is; no shoulda-coulda-woulda about it.
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Light on, light off.
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Make awareness the go-to state.
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The almighty dollar, greenback, wampum, gold coin, bread, whatever.
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A wise man once said nothing.
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Your conclusion about others are as meaningless as theirs about you.
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So much effort imagining, believing, pretending, you care.
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Real faith requires no word or act, no belief or creed.
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The mind is a mystical land of possibilities.
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The infringement of imagination is an infraction upon your eternal nature.
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The first breath, the last breath, and naught but a dream between.
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What was life like before there were millennials?
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Now: Open for business.
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Time to start brushing up for the contentment trophy.
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Only imagination imagines itself alive.
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Talk is cheap.
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Yet another zombie wandering its delusional mindscape.
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Nuance is all.
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The first moment no different than the last.
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Name that delusion.
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That demon in you always calling for more, more, more.
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Solution? How could there be?
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It is up to you to all alone figure out and come to grips as best you can with your cosmic mind.
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Put up or shut up.
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And what would be the point of opening that Pandora box?
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There is nothing to be.
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Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!
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Physics ... Chemistry ... Biology ... Patterns within patterns within patterns.
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There is no other, only you, ethereally eternal, forever present.
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The web of life is in tatters; a cloud of chaos is descending.
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So obvious from the long ago.
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Awareness is all you are; no was, no will ever be, about it.
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How can there be an end to what never began?
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What point to a promise that cannot be kept, a promise that is not real.
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What a sad pestilence the humanunkind.
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Using words again and again to fitfully describe that which words can never attain.
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So many causes, so little time.
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The future is now, such as it is.
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When small is large and large is small, what is there to realize, but that it is really nothing at all.
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Did the math.
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Let us not confuse the dramas of human consciousness with the un-drama of awareness.
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Yet another middleman.
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The Four E’s: Experience, Explore, Examine, Enlighten.
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Surrender to the isness; become totally untamed.
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Some women want forever and a day, and will slice off your balls to get it.
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How can you ever be more than you are right here, right now?
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A stain across the world.
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As you look through those eyes, are you witness of time, or witness before time?
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Another measurement few if any will give a flying hooey about.
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For all eternity, for all time, two very different states of consciousness.
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You are born alone, you die alone, and for awhile between, you pretend you are not alone.
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Sand is gold and gold is sand in the indivisible dust storm of eternity.
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Epiphany serendipity.
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Born anonymous, live anonymous between, die anonymous.
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The hunger! The hunger!
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And it's too late, baby now, it's too late, though we really did try to make it
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Drift alone, sovereign, indivisible, free of all constraints.
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Hope is dead. Long live hope.
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Born alone, live alone, die alone.
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Bunk.
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Dust and shadows.
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What’s to do?
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Field notes from my Self to my Self.
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Get over yourselves, people.
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Back to the future.
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A cosmic joke about which it is not always easy to laugh.
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See how the wild creatures scurry to safety; a good skill to keep well-honed.
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All you know is what you think you know; nothing more than the dust and shadows of illusion.
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Ethereal awareness, ephemeral consciousness.
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Fearful people wander in boxes built of dogma.
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Disloyalty is weaver of many a rough road.
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It matters not.
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Yet another mind-made thing pretending it is more.
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A little slice of forever, whatever that is.
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When were you taught to feel lonely?
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The list grows daily longer.
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The indefinable is indefinable; what is not obvious, not unequivocal, about that?
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Another layer of dust reminding you of your fate.
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The other is a shadow in your thoughts.
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Consciousness measures, awareness streams.
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The Devil may care.
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Consciousness ebbs and flows; awareness streams.
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It is the thought that counts.
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To be free and simple and serenely at ease is not as easy as it sounds.
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Nothing to assert, nothing to defend.
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Another truth for the propaganda mills to ignore.
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All for nothing, nothing for all.
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The dead are not dead; the living are not living.
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Is there any label that does not fit to one degree or another?
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Dice it, slice it, anyway your please, the pie is ever whole.
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Eternity does not care.
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What’s your tribe?
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The quest for truth is not something where there is any sanction but your own.
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What direction does your vanity call you today?
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Even the farthest star is nothing more than a twinkle in your most infinite mind.
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What matters so much right now, will likely not for long if ever again.
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Nothing exists without your attention.
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The mystery is its own teacher, its own student.
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Jesus saves no one; never did, never will.
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Has it ever occurred to you to wonder why it is you have never seen your face?
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Packaged and repackaged as fresh again and again and again, it is, it is, it is.
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There is no past, there is no future, there is only this moment unending.
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Are you full yet?
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The obvious is not obvious to all.
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Education is only as meaningful as the mind that gives it attention, full or otherwise.
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Born again or born anew?
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The world cannot be reconciled but by giving it a resounding no mind.
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No creature can long abide breaking the laws of nature.
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The world, the cosmos, are all theater; nothing more, nothing less, nothing but.
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Yet another Dead Poet in the making.
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No rewind button, sorry.
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What makes you so sure you exist in the way you think?
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We can only hear what we are ready to hear.
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Imitation is limitation.
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Surviving your daze.
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A blade is not dangerous if treated with respect.
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So many distractions, it is a wonder anyone has any time for anything else more important.
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Why should you deserve what you do not care for?
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The difference between like and dislike, love and hate, can be but a flip of the switch.
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More high-sounding words that mean nothing to nobody nowhere.
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The endless subtleties of nothingness are ever-present.
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Never hurts to include a little adversity into your day-to-day; do not want to be too soft.
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How are life and death not the same?
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Another day of wallowing in a litany of predictability.
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What a burden to care about so many things, especially if you are only pretending.
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Pretty hard protecting sheep from a hungry wolf.
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The answer is not more.
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The immortality of youth is a many-splendored illusion-delustion.
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What part of awareness alone are your not tracking?
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Men create women, women create men, the dynamic is inseparable.
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Pathogens aplenty in this untamable world.
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There’s the rub.
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What is luck but the probability of happenstance working your way.
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Measure, and you shall be measured.
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It has never mattered at all the way you thought.
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Enjoy in joy as best ye may.
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The human paradigm is about itself, not its source.
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Another day underway.
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Why on any earth would it ever matter what any other thinks of you?
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Vanity kills.
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The unquenchable appetite for power and fame and fortune is unquenchable vanity.
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To know nothing is to know all.
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Puny human beings.
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The engine in the quest for power and fame and fortune is unquenchable vanity.
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How can anyone expect to be saved from their own ignorance?
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Living for likes.
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How pathetically small so many minds are inspired to make their universes.
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It takes a lot of work to grow old.
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Some must travel very far to discern that which has always been very near.
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Never trust a four-letter word.
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So much history before all the history we think we know.
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All fates are but mirages born of imagination.
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You owe history nothing but what you freely consent.
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Once upon a time, there was nary a beep anywhere.
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We are all the same mystery from every get-go.
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Rhetoric is first and foremost about winning arguments, not necessarily discovering truths.
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So many things that do not matter; never did, never will.
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Supply will do what ever it must to gratify demand’s hunger.
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Eternity is closer than you think.
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You are that prior to all advents.
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Better to focus on reality than the illusion of reality.
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The truth of awareness awaits your discernment.
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What right do you have to be happy or sad?
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To make up your mind, first you must have one.
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The most challenging thing not to lose are your mind and body.
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Fair-to-middling chance any so-called just war is more often than not an oxymoron.
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And what of that state between agony and ecstasy where only awareness remains.
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Embrace your insignificance.
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Insidious stuff, water, that it can both create and nurture life, and destroy it, too.
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We all play out one meme or another.
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Lean toward facts; opinions mean squat.
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The dream is not more real now than the day you exited the womb.
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Giving to get is not giving.
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Be here now, be there now, be nowhere now.
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Those who survive into the grayer years become the relics of time.
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Everybody has a story.
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The mind’s capacity for self-aggrandizement, imaginary as it is, is a ceaseless wonder.
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Be nowhere now.
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How often does either/or really exist in the gray of relativity?
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The only absolute is absoluteness itself.
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Much of aging is about wrestling with consequences.
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Forever moot.
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Whatever you may think of death, it is an inevitable fact.
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Where is the world, where is the universe, if you do not remember it.
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Whatever hope there was, washed away in the pain.
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Eternity is no more than a heartbeat away.
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So many things that so many think matter that do not, never did, never will.
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Let us not quibble over details lest we splinter into vain and dogmatic interlude.
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Been there, done that.
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The Fates are indifferent to yours.
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DNA weary.
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The artificial concoctions of the human paradigm are continuous and unceasing.
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Embrace the meaninglessness; embrace the purposelessness.
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Oh, very Tao, what will you leave us this time?
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We all suffer from one variety of miasma or another.
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So it goes, too bad, so sorry, oh well, deal with it, get over it, move on.
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The meaning of life is that it lacks any ultimate meaning, whatsoever.
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Necessity is perhaps the greatest teacher.
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There is no word of god, only the words of men.
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In the ultimate reality, you are attached to nothing, for that is the indelible nature.
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In the never-changing, change is.
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Sometimes, nothing sounds good.
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The challenge is to not be your own worst enemy.
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Is any other creature any more enthralled with their genitalia than we primates are?
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You are the mystery.
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Hope for the best; plan for the worst.
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The movement that is; the stillness that is not.
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The dark in the light, the light in the dark, the seeds of each in all.
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If it is not all about you, who, pray tell, is it about?
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Yet another celebrate-your-trophy moment.
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Alas and oh well.
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What is retirement but the last vacation.
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What more does a man need than a small, sharp blade with which to carve out a heart.
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Words are only as meaningful as they are read.
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Better you than me.
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Dogma free.
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Outside your memory, does anyone or anything really exist?
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To become or not to become, that is the question.
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What notion can a dream long harbor?
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Flesh can only lie so long.
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All else is imagination.
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Same old monkey.
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All the vanities to which any aspire are as wind blowing from you know where.
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To believe totally in nothing is the realm of the no-mind.
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Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!
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It is probably not about you.
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The imaginary Me-Myself-and-I awakens again.
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Righteousness and self-righteousness are two very different states of mind.
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The harvests of mind are quickly devoured.
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The body is a teeming battleground in a war no one survives.
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If you are trying to be powerful at the expense of others, you are not.
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Pay attention, you might live longer.
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There they go again, mucking about in all their imaginary differences.
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Sometimes it is best to let the missing sheep go.
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All emotional notions are nothing more than human poppycock.
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No harm, no foul.
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One voice, or many, you decide.
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The most simple truths have a resonating elegance.
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Supreme being, what does that mean, anyway?
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The plot begins, the plot unfolds, the plot suspends, the plot resolves, the plot ends.
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Oops.
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Why is it so many have such a need to label everything?
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Absurdity will out.
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You are the mystery personified.
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You cannot learn well what you do not wish to know well.
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Science is only as clear as the mind wielding the technology.
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Justice is revenge spelled sideways-inside-out-backwards.
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Best make time now if you do not want to pay a higher price later.
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The subtlety of forgiveness is its inward healing.
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Maybe the real heroes are those who live unassuming, anonymous, orderly, peaceful lives.
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Yet another slab of meat with a lavish slathering of vanity.
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So, who are you using to get your emotional fix these daze?
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All differences are ultimately not real.
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Consume until there is no tomorrow.
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The benefit of great doubt, and the inevitable process of negation, is a free mind.
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What point to mortal existence if you have no health to partake it?
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Let the reptiles have it back.
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What goes up must come down, the joy of statistical certitude.
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Born free, die free.
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What would Jesus do? Well, not come back, obviously.
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Same old shit no matter how well you eat.
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You are a no-other in my universe, and I am a no-other in yours.
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True personal power requires no assertion.
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Very forgettable, indeed.
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Hell is in the details, and there are plenty to go around.
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Bring in the clowns.
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It is a dream, and then it is not.
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You might kill the body, but you can never kill your Self.
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Royal flush or zip, play what you got best you can.
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God is a concept; you are not.
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You are the only you that is, has ever been, will ever be.
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What is the body but a cadaver that is still moving.
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You are that to which you aspire, but only until you are not.
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A trap of its own making.
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The agony and ecstasy of every story is within you.
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It is never easy being imprisoned in a fading rose.
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It is all pointless, both literally and figuratively.
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To call it the heart of awareness is not about some willy-nilly emotional state.
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Your dream is whether it is all about yesterday or today or tomorrow.
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It is all so superficial.
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In the Land of Irony and Paradox, more is less, and less, more.
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There was no before, there will be no after, there is only the ephemeral now.
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To return to square one is an adventure to which only the rare aspire.
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What need does a sage firmly grounded in the indivisible have for any mythology?
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Just because you do not like it, does not mean it is not true.
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The universe is but an imaginary sheen in your imaginary mind.
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The way of the monkey: for some futures to rise, others must fall.
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What has science become but the cataloging of unending minutia.
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Yet another thing you have a hard time wanting to care about.
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Philosophy is the refuge of untitled kings.
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All differences are but vain notions fabricated in the mind’s eye.
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Are you a human being or a human becoming?
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The timeless prior-to-consciousness moment is where its at, has ever been, will ever be.
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Fate is about what price you are willing to pay.
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Life and death are the same but for the consciousness that creates all differences.
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Sorry you did it, or sorry you got caught?
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All ephemeral, nothing concrete.
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Are we there yet?
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Is there any plus without a minus; any minus without a plus?
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Yet another dead poet.
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The reality is that you are born and die each and every moment.
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Iffy at best.
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The mystery is all.
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Those forever seeking have yet to really stop and look.
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Ignorance is its own bewitchment.
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Memes all.
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Quicksand is no harbor.
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History kills everyone sooner or later.
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The stillness, the timelessness of the aloneness, is the essential nature of all eternity.
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Wallowing in pretense, why?
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You are very much alone, and nothing can save you from it.
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Destiny is the price life pays for existence.
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Skirting around nothing.
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What end – sweet or bitter or some blend between – will you endure?
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There it is again; there it is not again.
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Only you know your unabridged story, and even that not completely or accurately.
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A secret is not long held by more than one set of lips.
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Another day of slaving away for DNA.
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Nothing is real and true but for the programming that assumes it so.
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You are ever the same as before as during as after.
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You are solitary witness, alone no matter how big the crowd.
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Today’s headlines are tomorrow’s sorrows.
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The truth, the truth, what is the truth but what you think it is, but likely isn’t.
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The different you, the different me, I am you, and you are me.
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Where’s the humility?
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Time is a concept to which you need not submit.
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Everything is born of arbitrary assumption.
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Critical thinking is the chasm between sage and fool.
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Yet another face in which vanity will find harbor.
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Immortal soul, mortal body, forever young playing the gray.
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The mystery born in you, was born in me, too.
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Gaia is founded upon differences that are not; it is the requirement of any lila.
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Alone in their own worlds, the players all play along.
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Who is the me in you? Who is the you in me?
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Memories are but slowly dissolving perception undone in mind’s conception.
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So far away, so long ago, the show, the show, it changes so.
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A decline of hunger makes for great philosophy.
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The saving grace of time is in the insight that it is not real.
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The difference between you and me is just a thought or two or three.
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Who wins, who loses, just a state of mind.
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Need and want are mutually exclusive motivations.
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A little humility, please.
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Compassion is not something that can be forced; you either got it or you ain’t.
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To live for applause is a most shallow and debilitating motivation.
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Consciousness is the inherent flaw that all must endure.
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Pluck out that thorn of desire, and what is left but an abiding grace.
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The nothing of now, across the board, for all eternity.
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The idolatry of form, the idolatry of concept, same thing, really.
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The clock is not your friend.
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History comes, history goes, but the passions are ever the same.
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The cynicism of old men is not easily endured by the young.
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How true the true, how false the false.
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Any anthill is a crowded city state of the six-legged kind.
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Memory is an erstwhile taskmaster.
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How much bother will you be required to endure today?
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Like it or not, what you really are and are not is, for all practical purposes, forever.
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Is happiness really about happiness, or is it more about not being miserable?
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A species that deserves to go extinct if ever there was one.
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The mystery born anew, born you.
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Without memory, did anything ever really happen?
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Another day a-streamin’ in the dreamin’.
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Yet another line of genomic material rising to its decline and inevitable extinction.
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The fog of consciousness masks the eternal awareness, and time plays on.
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The individual has always been at odds with one group or another.
* * * *
Another day, same mystery.
* * * *
Another day, same monkey.
* * * *
A bar set so low that it will take ages to raise it again, if ever.
* * * *
Sometimes a thousand words, sometimes a picture, paint the largest view.
* * * *
Imagination is the time machine.
* * * *
All history is nothing more than the pretense of imagination.
* * * *
The chaos of destruction is but the stirring stick of creation.
* * * *
Nothing stands alone.
* * * *
It all sounds quite mad, really.
* * * *
We all serve one beast or another.
* * * *
An insider joke without an insider.
* * * *
Civility is the pretense of savagery.
* * * *
Tools are only as necessary as the given job.
* * * *
Fathom the unfathomable, and you will perchance become unfathomable.
* * * *
Right wing or left wing, there are always wing nuts spinning on loose screws.
* * * *
How are you going to look without that face?
* * * *
What is pride, what is vanity, but a mind absorbed in its imaginary delusions.
* * * *
Is it been there, done that, or am here, doing that?
* * * *
What you say or think all hinges upon the context of the given moment.
* * * *
True humility precludes pride.
* * * *
As stories across time so often demonstrate, alliances are what the human paradigm are about.
* * * *
For even one part to be false, it must all be.
* * * *
You are perfection manifest.
* * * *
Principles often prove to be many-layered things in the relativity of circumstance.
* * * *
A little dab of attention will do ya.
* * * *
Extremes are always rough on the majorities who lack the will to resist.
* * * *
What is beautiful, what is not, and who decides?
* * * *
How could any of this be without you to witness it, to participate in it in whatever way you will.
* * * *
Go ahead, allow your Self to be free.
* * * *
What if all creation is nothing more than an exhale?
* * * *
By the time any tomorrow arrives, it will be the same now every yesterday has ever known.
* * * *
You appear, you disappear, what of it?
* * * *
It all is what it is; no point judging anything.
* * * *
Watch and wait each and every eternal moment that full attention allows.
* * * *
The frontal lobe is the theater of human consciousness.
* * * *
Why would you want to be that stupid?
* * * *
There is a universe to unlearn, perchance to forget.
* * * *
What’s your delusion?
* * * *
Questions of a thousand dreams.
* * * *
Is the present ever quite what it seems?
* * * *
There is no Superman, sorry.
* * * *
Principles have a tendency to change with the given wind.
* * * *
Not often you can choose your neighbors.
* * * *
It is not what you want to be; it is what you want to pretend.
* * * *
Are you perfect yet?
* * * *
Wield that discerning sword with great attention.
* * * *
The world is founded upon distraction.
* * * *
Everything is after the fact.
* * * *
Give full attention to the present upon which awareness sheds its light.
* * * *
Curiosity don’t just kill cats.
* * * *
Perception, perception, perception.
* * * *
How stupid is stupid has yet to be determined.
* * * *
Watch and wait, it will all happen soon enough.
* * * *
No dogma required.
* * * *
What is food today is only piss and gas and shit tomorrow.
* * * *
Imagination is always running away with itself.
* * * *
The other, it is all out there, doing what you cannot control.
* * * *
Pure awareness is neither smile nor frown.
* * * *
Infinity, what is that anyway?
* * * *
Kicking the world out of your mind is not easy, but it’s not hard, either.
* * * *
Is it death, or merely not being confined to a body anymore?
* * * *
What now?
* * * *
The world is a pisser-shitter outhouse for all the dinosaurs that have ever roamed.
* * * *
If you are talking differences, you are not talking truth.
* * * *
When has any self-help book ever helped you for long?
* * * *
What selective universe, a selective theater, the mind makes of the senses.
* * * *
Are you complete yet?
* * * *
There are no followers; only explorers who wander across all lands, all times.
* * * *
Desire not, fear not.
* * * *
Waste time? How can something that does not exist be wasted?
* * * *
What is food today is shit tomorrow.
* * * *
Who’s the alien here?
* * * *
The quantum source abides all.
* * * *
Is anyone ever really who you think they are?
* * * *
The hallmark of any civilization has always been too many people in too little space.
* * * *
Ever since inception, the body has every moment endured its diminishment.
* * * *
Yet another case of something happened.
* * * *
What is nationalism but tribalism on steroids.
* * * *
If you were really strong, you would not need to proclaim it over and over and over.
* * * *
Quantum this.
* * * *
How would you see it all if you did not know so much?
* * * *
Bam!
* * * *
Surely, the mind is meant for more than a repository of meaningless trivia.
* * * *
The elixir of wisdom is the distillation of a wide array of ever-streaming moments.
* * * *
So what?
* * * *
Creativity is its own reward.
* * * *
Bite the hand that feeds you, and be mindful of the slap before it wanders away.
* * * *
The quantum matrix born of a quantum mind is a figment of time.
* * * *
Nothing exists but the eternal now, and even that is a dubious assumption.
* * * *
The mystery wakes up to another day.
* * * *
Awareness has no reality but through timeless attention.
* * * *
Abide in transience.
* * * *
The key ingredient to discerning the ultimate reality is a heady dollop of doubt.
* * * *
Dare to know; dare to not know.
* * * *
Peering out from a face never seen, a universe never known.
* * * *
Absolute power does not corrupt the absolute.
* * * *
The Church of Reason is only as rational, as objective, as vanity allows.
* * * *
Any being rated supreme is surely neither jealous nor vengeful nor ambitious in any way.
* * * *
What is memory for the sage but a set of perceptions from which to mine wisdom.
* * * *
Live desirelessly, live fearlessly.
* * * *
The practice is death while living.
* * * *
Do not know what I am, but I am surely not anything I think.
* * * *
The things we take for granted likely fill many a single-spaced page.
* * * *
The silliness of time is the silliness of mind.
* * * *
True science has no agenda but truth.
* * * *
The mystery is but a mystery is but a mystery.
* * * *
As I am, so are you.
* * * *
Religious and spiritual are states of imagination to which ignorance and delusion cling.
* * * *
The end of desire is the end of fear.
* * * *
You cannot teach ignorance what it is not capable of, or interested in, learning.
* * * *
The dowry of life is suffering and death.
* * * *
The permutations of greed are relatively predictable.
* * * *
Chances are your nose looks best on your own face.
* * * *
Beauty parlors, what a joke; more like a daily dose of Halloween.
* * * *
So, how’s life in the feed lot? Looks like you’re still eating well.
* * * *
Oh, what self-deceptive lies these minds can double-double-toil-and-trouble in their soupy mix.
* * * *
The illusions of the flesh are of but relatively short duration.
* * * *
Rid your mind of all its effort, and what is left but that which is unknowable.
* * * *
The joy of science is making black and white, gray, and gray, black and white.
* * * *
Half-baked or well done, the potato is the same.
* * * *
A singular vision that relatively few are beckoned-chosen-allowed to clearly perceive.
* * * *
Another day in the genitalia wars.
* * * *
Look to your awareness to see the truth of you in all.
* * * *
Abiding in stillness, existing without label, without definition, now that’s nirvana.
* * * *
As if it matters.
* * * *
Embrace the aloneness, embrace the sovereignty, embrace the infinity.
* * * *
Everything is forgotten in one sooner or later or another.
* * * *
Generation after generation must learn anew who they can and cannot trust.
* * * *
The best solution to either wealth or poverty is a richness of spirit.
* * * *
You have been locked in a struggle with death since the moment you were conceived.
* * * *
Absurdity from dawn to dusk, and all the dark hours before and after.
* * * *
To meet your fate with a full breath inspires the greatest courage.
* * * *
To break with history, with the chains of time, is the only true freedom.
* * * *
How long can virtue withstand the winds of fierce and bitter consciousness?
* * * *
Discontent is best remedied by regular, sustained breathing.
* * * *
The struggle of existence is ceaseless from first breath to last.
* * * *
To die to time, to suspend all memories, is to be free, to be born anew in the given moment.
* * * *
Consciousness does not easily relinquish its imaginary universe.
* * * *
The garden is still very Darwinesque, despite all the safety nets we pretend will save us.
* * * *
Being trapped in the body-mind can often be very trying.
* * * *
No matter how many rocks you turn over, beneath each and every one is the same mystery.
* * * *
As if all your opinions mean diddly-squat.
* * * *
Trust fate to sooner or later winding-road you to one executioner’s block or another.
* * * *
Another footnote.
* * * *
Only the dead have seen the end of absurdity.
* * * *
And that died too.
* * * *
Always so much more to everything than meets the eye of any given mind.
* * * *
Why waste time over things over which you have absolutely no control?
* * * *
Your ignorance is bliss.
* * * *
Is it cheating if you are playing a different game?
* * * *
How many so-called great warriors have never fought the greatest battle within?
* * * *
Winning is not always the priority; surviving, abiding, is often the more realistic outcome.
* * * *
When it comes to watermelons, best leave the heart, or at least part of it, for last.
* * * *
Whether you recline, sit, stand, walk, or run, it all passes the same.
* * * *
What a great deal of work it takes to do nothing well.
* * * *
We are kindly served by so many distractions, so few of which really matter.
* * * *
How much does imagination require to see it is but an illusion?
* * * *
How focused ambition must be in order to fulfill great desire.
* * * *
A few deep breaths can inspire greater courage than any set of neuron sparks.
* * * *
How can you imagine any speculation but less true?
* * * *
All that feasting and you’re still hungry!?
* * * *
To a true believer, it really matters, and woe unto those who differ.
* * * *
True contentment is being at peace with the everything that is nothing all the while.
* * * *
Layers of subtlety are the hallmark of a sage’s thinking.
* * * *
What is death but a dream forever extinguished.
* * * *
Desire will carry on for as long as you are driven mad by its siren call.
* * * *
You are the quantum breeze.
* * * *
Is that all? Seriously!?
* * * *
And what do you hunger for today?
* * * *
Consciousness an insatiable beast that will not easily die.
* * * *
No projection of imagination, no matter how lucid, how fearless, has ever been real.
* * * *
Do not be usurped by gossip, and by the way, it is all gossip.
* * * *
Truth or delusion, you decide.
* * * *
The ivory towers and forums are awash in the same vanities as any other human experience.
* * * *
There are no followers in this game; only those who see and those who do not.
* * * *
There are always statistical exceptions, standard deviations, that prove bell curves true.
* * * *
Beware any individual or group that has a big idea looking for true believers.
* * * *
Pleasure and pain serve the same master.
* * * *
If you cannot save your self, how can you save anyone else?
* * * *
Pleasure and pain spawn different outcomes in their cause and effect spins.
* * * *
Another day of Animal Farm redux, idem, ibidem, et cetera, ad infinitum.
* * * *
How much more do you desperately not need?
* * * *
The times and places and names and faces may change, but the mystery is ever the same.
* * * *
Party on, the Reaper is but a breath away.
* * * *
Yabba-dabba-doo.
* * * *
How useless the critic who does not use his/her wit to discern beyond personal prejudice.
* * * *
Life is a marathon, not a sprint, or at least not all the time.
* * * *
Judgment requires an intensity that often burdens the accuser as much if not more than the accused.
* * * *
What is any given cosmos but a sensory body, a brain, and a mind imagining it so.
* * * *
Only so much anyone can do to waylay the inevitable.
* * * *
What a strange thing to follow anyone; what a strange thing to be followed by anyone.
* * * *
Something happened, more something happened, even more something happened.
* * * *
Planet of the Apes, more Planet of the Apes, even More Planet of the Apes.
* * * *
Meaninglessness, more meaninglessness, even more meaninglessness.
* * * *
Entitlement, more entitlement, even more entitlement.
* * * *
Savagery, more savagery, even more savagery.
* * * *
Confusion, more confusion, even more confusion.
* * * *
Revenge, more revenge, even more revenge.
* * * *
Forgiveness, more forgiveness, even more forgiveness.
* * * *
Folderol, more folderol, even more folderol.
* * * *
Be here now, more be here now, even more be here now.
* * * *
Be there now, more be there now, even more be there now.
* * * *
Nowhere now, more nowhere now, even more nowhere now.
* * * *
Life of moi, more life of moi, even more life of moi.
* * * *
End is nigh, more end is nigh, even more end is nigh.
* * * *
Nowhere, more nowhere, even more nowhere.
* * * *
Bragging, more bragging, even more bragging.
* * * *
Dramas, more dramas, even more dramas.
* * * *
Soap operas, more soap operas, even more soap operas.
* * * *
Insoluble problems, more insoluble problems, even more insoluble problems.
* * * *
Empowerment, more empowerment, even more empowerment.
* * * *
Disempowerment, more disempowerment, even more disempowerment.
* * * *
Self-absorption, more self-absorption, even more self-absorption.
* * * *
Self-aggrandizement, more self-aggrandizement, even more self-aggrandizement.
* * * *
Opening game, more opening game, even more opening game.
* * * *
Middle game, more middle game, even more middle game.
* * * *
End game, more end game, even more end game.
* * * *
Projects, more projects, even more projects.
* * * *
Conundrums, more conundrums, even more conundrums.
* * * *
Play the gray, more play the gray, even more play the gray.
* * * *
No-others, more no-others, even more no-others.
* * * *
Intelligencia, more intelligencia, even more intelligencia.
* * * *
Aristocracy, more aristocracy, even more aristocracy.
* * * *
Plutocracy, more plutocracy, even more plutocracy.
* * * *
Oligarchy, more oligarchy, even more oligarchy.
* * * *
Tyranny, more tyranny, even more tyranny.
* * * *
Bourgeois, more bourgeois, even more bourgeois.
* * * *
Proletariat, more proletariat, even more proletariat.
* * * *
Deplorables, more deplorables, even more deplorables.
* * * *
Legalisms, more legalisms, even more legalisms.
* * * *
Number-crunchers, more number-crunchers, even more number-crunchers.
* * * *
Politicians, more politicians, even more politicians.
* * * *
Lawyers, more lawyers, even more legalists.
* * * *
Bureaucrats, more bureaucrats, even more bureaucrats.
* * * *
Technocrats, more technocrats, even more technocrats.
* * * *
Political intrigue, more political intrigue, even more political intrigue.
* * * *
Philosophical babble, more philosophical babble, even more philosophical babble.
* * * *
Lone ranger, more lone ranger, even more lone ranger.
* * * *
Dittoheads, more dittoheads, even more dittoheads.
* * * *
Babbleon, more babbleon, even more babbleon.
* * * *
So it goes, more so it goes, even more so it goes.
* * * *
Punctuation, more punctuation, even more punctuation.
* * * *
Hoitytoityville, more hoitytoityville, even more hoitytoityville.
* * * *
Effing the ineffable, more effing the ineffable, even more effing the ineffable.
* * * *
Purposelessness, more purposelessness, even more purposelessness.
* * * *
Consequences, more consequences, even more consequences.
* * * *
Deception, more deception, even more deception.
* * * *
Serenity, more serenity, even more serenity.
* * * *
Illusion, more illusion, even more illusion.
* * * *
Questions, more questions, even more questions.
* * * *
Non sequitur, more non sequitur, even more non sequitur.
* * * *
Thinking, more thinking, even more thinking.
* * * *
Problems, more problems, even more problems.
* * * *
Mind gorp, more mind gorp, even more mind gorp.
* * * *
Concepts, more concepts, even more concepts.
* * * *
Fortune, more fortune, even more fortune.
* * * *
Gobbledygook, more gobbledygook, even more gobbledygook.
* * * *
Human balderdash, more human balderdash, even more human balderdash.
* * * *
Food for words, more food for words, even more food for words.
* * * *
Solutions, more solutions, even more solutions.
* * * *
Power, more power, even more power.
* * * *
Glory, more glory, even more glory.
* * * *
Rules, more rules, even more rules.
* * * *
Pleasure, more pleasure, even more pleasure.
* * * *
Tool-making, more tool-making, even more tool-making.
* * * *
Answers, more answers, even more answers.
* * * *
Laws, more laws, even more laws.
* * * *
Done, more done, even more done.
* * * *
Anguish, more anguish, even more anguish.
* * * *
Tragedy, more tragedy, even more tragedy.
* * * *
Serendipity, more serendipity, even more serendipity.
* * * *
Future past, more future past, even more future past.
* * * *
Sustenance, more sustenance, even more sustenance.
* * * *
Déjà vu, more déjà vu, even more déjà vu.
* * * *
Dogma, more dogma, even more dogma.
* * * *
Fame, more fame, even more fame.
* * * *
Joy, more joy, even more joy.
* * * *
Chaos, more chaos, even more chaos.
* * * *
Vanity, more vanity, even more vanity.
* * * *
Scourge, more scourge, even more scourge.
* * * *
Human drivel, more human drivel, even more human drivel.
* * * *
Absurdity, more absurdity, even more absurdity.
* * * *
Misery, more misery, even more misery.
* * * *
Cute, more cute, even more cute.
* * * *
Sorrow, more sorrow, even more sorrow.
* * * *
Desperation, more desperation, even more desperation.
* * * *
Say whaaaat?!!, more say whaaaat?!!, even more say whaaaat?!!
* * * *
Boorishness, more boorishness, even more boorishness.
* * * *
Incivility, more incivility, even more incivility.
* * * *
Coarseness, more coarseness, even more coarseness.
* * * *
Bullying, more bullying, even more bullying.
* * * *
Doh, more doh, even more doh.
* * * *
Sickness, more sickness, even more sickness.
* * * *
Technology, more technology, even more technology.
* * * *
Engineering, more engineering, even more engineering.
* * * *
Science, more science, even more science.
* * * *
Buzz, more buzz, even more buzz.
* * * *
Grief, more grief, even more grief.
* * * *
Duh, more duh, even more duh.
* * * *
Civility, more civility, even more civility.
* * * *
Vulgarity, more vulgarity, even more vulgarity.
* * * *
Metaphors, more metaphors, even more metaphors.
* * * *
Home invasion, more home invasion, even more home invasion.
* * * *
Knowledge, more knowledge, even more knowledge.
* * * *
Plagiarism, more plagiarism, even more plagiarism.
* * * *
Unrest, more unrest, even more unrest.
* * * *
Noise, more noise, even more noise.
* * * *
Fear, more fear, even more fear.
* * * *
Soma, more soma, even more soma.
* * * *
Delusion, more delusion, even more delusion.
* * * *
Dread, more dread, even more dread.
* * * *
Strife, more strife, even more strife.
* * * *
Killing, more killing, even more killing.
* * * *
Mind doodles, more mind doodles, even more mind doodles.
* * * *
Civilization, more civilization, even more civilization.
* * * *
Quietude, more quietude, even more quietude.
* * * *
Abyss, more abyss, even more abyss.
* * * *
Desire, ore desire, even more desire.
* * * *
Pain, more pain, even more pain.
* * * *
More, more more, even more more.
* * * *
Eclectic, more eclectic, even more eclectic.
* * * *
Twitteron, more twitteron, even more twitteron.
* * * *
Words, more words, even more words.
* * * *
Food, more food, even more food.
* * * *
Death, more death, even more death.
* * * *
Endorphins, more endorphins, even more endorphins.
* * * *
Twitterheads, more twitterheads, even more twitterheads.
* * * *
Revolution, more revolution, even more revolution.
* * * *
Hunger, more hunger, even more hunger.
* * * *
Mystery, more mystery, even more mystery.
* * * *
Birth, more birth, even more birth.
* * * *
Paths to glory, more paths to glory, even more paths to glory.
* * * *
Whining, more whining, even more whining.
* * * *
Pap, more pap, even more pap.
* * * *
Space cadet, more space cadet, even more space cadet.
* * * *
Being, more being, even more being.
* * * *
Becoming, more becoming, even more becoming.
* * * *
Drugs, more drugs, even more drugs.
* * * *
War, more war, even more war.
* * * *
Ineffable, more ineffable, even more ineffable.
* * * *
Trees falling, more trees falling, even more trees falling.
* * * *
Pathos, more pathos, even more pathos.
* * * *
Craving, more craving, even more craving.
* * * *
Contentment, more contentment, even more contentment.
* * * *
Me, myself, and I, more me, myself, and I, even more me, myself, and I.
* * * *
Much ado about nothing, more much ado about nothing, even more much ado about nothing.
* * * *
Wisdom, more wisdom, even more wisdom.
* * * *
Foolishness, more foolishness, even more foolishness.
* * * *
Weariness, more weariness, even more weariness.
* * * *
Game face, more game face, even more game face.
* * * *
Practice, more practice, even more practice.
* * * *
Quackery, more quackery, even more quackery.
* * * *
Bittersweet, more bittersweet, even more bittersweet.
* * * *
Caring, more caring, even more caring.
* * * *
Non-Caring, more non-caring, even more non-caring.
* * * *
Sweet, more sweet, even more sweet.
* * * *
Bitter, more bitter, even more bitter.
* * * *
Sour, more sour, even more sour.
* * * *
Smorgasbord, more smorgasbord, even more smorgasbord.
* * * *
Consumption, more consumption, even more consumption.
* * * *
Parochial, more parochial, even more parochial.
* * * *
Cosmopolitan, more cosmopolitan, even more cosmopolitan.
* * * *
Cruelty, more cruelty, even more cruelty.
* * * *
Kindness, more kindness, even more kindness.
* * * *
Nothing, more nothing, even more nothing.
* * * *
Something, more something, even more something.
* * * *
Meditation, more meditation, even more meditation.
* * * *
Contemplation, more contemplation, even more contemplation.
* * * *
Existence, more existence, even more existence.
* * * *
Creation, more creation, even more creation.
* * * *
Void, more void, even more void.
* * * *
Nil, more nil, even more nil.
* * * *
Naught, more naught, even more naught.
* * * *
Brazen, more brazen, even more brazen.
* * * *
Gold, more gold, even more gold.
* * * *
Real gold, more real gold, even more real gold.
* * * *
False gold, more false gold, even more false gold.
* * * *
Scorn, more scorn, even more scorn.
* * * *
Desolation, more desolation, even more desolation.
* * * *
Things, more things, even more things.
* * * *
Sounds, more sounds, even more sounds.
* * * *
Sights, more sights, even more sights.
* * * *
Flavors, more flavors, even more flavors.
* * * *
Tastes, more tastes, even more tastes.
* * * *
Smells, more smells, even more smells.
* * * *
People, more people, even more people.
* * * *
Nada, more nada, even more nada.
* * * *
Mindful, more mindful, even more mindful.
* * * *
Mindless, more mindless, even more mindless.
* * * *
Wordplay, more wordplay, even more wordplay.
* * * *
Numbers, more numbers, even more numbers.
* * * *
Symbols, more symbols, even more symbols.
* * * *
Images, more images, even more images.
* * * *
Colors, more colors, even more colors.
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Shades of gray, more shades of gray, even more shades of gray.
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Forms, more forms, even more forms.
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Formless, more formless, even more formless.
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Art, more art, even more art.
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History, more history, even more history.
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Ivory tower, more ivory tower, even more ivory tower.
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Creativity, more creativity, even more creativity.
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Preservation, more preservation, even more preservation.
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Destruction, more destruction, even more destruction.
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Anthropological events, more anthropological events, even more anthropological events.
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Crapola, more crapola, even more crapola.
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Yoke, more yoke, even more yoke.
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Conversations, more conversations, even more conversations.
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Habit, more habit, even more habit.
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Rut, more rut, even more rut.
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Patterns, more patterns, even more patterns.
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Human bullshit, more human bullshit, even more human bullshit.
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Human babble, more human babble, even more human babble.
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Definitions, more definitions, even more definitions.
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Grace, more grace, even more grace.
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Perfection, more perfection, even more perfection.
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Quantum consumption, more quantum consumption, even more quantum consumption.
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Futility, more futility, even more futility.
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Whodunit, more whodunit, even more whodunit.
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Beeps, more beeps, even more beeps.
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Gorging, more gorging, even more gorging.
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Herd games, more herd games, even more herd games.
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Berserko, more berserko, even more berserko.
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Calamity, more calamity, even more calamity.
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Hobbies, more hobbies, even more hobbies.
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Whatchamacallits, more whatchamacallits, even more whatchamacallits.
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Wallahoo, more wallahoo, even more wallahoo.
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Human chatter, more human chatter, even more human chatter.
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Digestion, more digestion, even more digestion.
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Indigestion, more indigestion, even more indigestion.
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Lies, more lies, even more lies.
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Extinction, more extinction, even more extinction.
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Migration, more migration, even more migration.
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Yabba-dabba-doo, more Yabba-dabba-doo, even more yabba-dabba-doo.
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Cleverness, more cleverness, even more cleverness.
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Doubt, more doubt, even more doubt.
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Quibbling, more quibbling, even more quibbling.
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Contrarianism, more contrarianism, even more contrarianism.
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Eternity, more eternity, even more eternity.
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Indivisibility, more indivisibility, even more indivisibility.
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Silly as it is, more silly as it is, even more silly as it is.
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Never mind, more never mind, even more never mind.
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Wandering on empty, more wandering on empty, even more wandering on empty.
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Obviousness, more obviousness, even more obviousness.
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Translation, more translation, even more translation.
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Virtue, more virtue, even more virtue.
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Excellence, more excellence, even more excellence.
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Areté, more arête, even more areté.
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Possibilities, more possibilities, even more possibilities.
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Similarities, more similarities, even more similarities.
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Differences, more differences, even more differences.
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Edifices, more edifices, even more edifices.
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Corruption, more corruption, even more corruption.
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Charades, more charades, even more charades.
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Bonkers, more bonkers, even more bonkers.
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Trivial pursuit, more trivial pursuit, even more trivial pursuit.
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Wankers, more wankers, even more wankers.
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Pedal to the metal, more pedal to the metal, even more pedal to the metal.
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Aphrodisiac, more aphrodisiac, even more aphrodisiac.
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Compromise, more compromise, even more compromise.
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Half-baked, more half-baked, even more half-baked.
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Indifference, more indifference, even more indifference.
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Like, more like, even more like.
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Dislike, more dislike, even more dislike.
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Values, more values, even more values.
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Quality, more quality, even more quality.
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Shapes, more shapes, even more shapes.
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Calculations, more calculations, even more calculations.
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Manipulations, more manipulations, even more manipulations.
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Truths, more truths, even more truths.
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Order, more order, even more order.
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Formlessness, more formlessness, even more formlessness.
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Awareness, more awareness, even more awareness.
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Small talk, more small talk, even more small talk.
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Idle chatter, more idle chatter, even more idle chatter.
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Great thoughts, more great thoughts, even more great thoughts.
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Quackery, more quackery, even more quackery.
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Dangerous toys, more dangerous toys, even more dangerous toys.
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Samsara, more samsara, even more samsara.
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Smoke, more smoke, even more smoke.
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Soundless, more soundless, even more soundless.
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Other, more other, even more other.
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Bullshit, more bullshit, even more bullshit.
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Smoke and mirrors, more smoke and mirrors, even more smoke and mirrors.
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Middlemen, more middlemen, even more middlemen.