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It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.
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The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.
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You can't buy enlightenment, but you can hire a mirror so you can watch it happen.
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Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. -Anthony Bourdain
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We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him.
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I found I have to stay painting.
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More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.
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Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.
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Enlightenment isn't found with a full stomach, or on a soft pillow.
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When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.
