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The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

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Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

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To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

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We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.

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I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.

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I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.

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It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.

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The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

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What I am is a heretic who's recanted and, thereby, in everyone's eyes, saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Philosopher

Born: September 6th, 1928

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