"Ritual is intimately connected with the mask, either in the wearing that hides the true face, or in the adoption of a public face."

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“Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it.”

“One is not a single self, although there is some common thread holding together disparate incarnations.”

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“When the mind grasps the universe, the senses retreat.”

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