"Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane — while the other half of the window is wide open?"

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“The Buddha forbore to specify: as long as there is any "one" to suffer — he will.”

“There is no mystery whatever — only inability to perceive the obvious.”

“In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow — and that is likely to hurt.”

“Realisation is a matter of becoming conscious of that which is already realised.”

“All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.”

“The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.”

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