Only silence perfects silence.

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In nature there are few sharp lines.

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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

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