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"The world and the mind are states of being. The supreme is not a state. It pervades all states, but it is not a state of something else. It is entirely uncaused, independent, complete in itself, beyon…"

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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"All great truths begin as blasphemies."

— George Bernard Shaw

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