Janwillem van de Wetering Quotes
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I had been proud of my awareness, aware of my pride, and proud of that awareness again. It went on like this: How clever I am that I know I am so stupid, how stupid I am to think that I am clever, and how clever I am that I am aware of my stupidity, etc.
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To die should be the most interesting journey of all the journeys a person can take.
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Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve.
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For me this book was a very practical explanation of one man's experience of Enlightened awareness in in the face of or in light of dogma-oriented wisdom.
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To see what isn't true is easy. But to see what is true will take some doing.
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Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.
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What is first seen as a loss is now seen as a gain. For he finds solitude, not in far off, quite places; he creates it out of himself, spreads it around him, wherever he may be, because he loves it and slowly he ripens in this tranquility. For the inner process is beginning to unfold, stillness is extraordinarily important.
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