"It is said that â€œthere is a self,â€ but â€œnon-selfâ€ too is taught. The buddhas also teach there is nothing which is â€œneither self nor non-self.â€ Everything is real, not real; both real and not real; neither not real nor real: this is the teaching of the Buddha."

-- Nagarjun

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“The poor are not a problem but rather an opportunity to show unconditional love.”
“The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was created by existing saloons, and non-existing bright hearths, smiling wives, pretty caps and aprons. The cure was the patent nostrum of pledge-signing, a lying-made-easy invention, which like calomel, seldom had any permanent effect on the disease for which it was given, and never failed to produce another and a worse. Here the care created an epidemic of forgery, falsehood and perjury.”
“Men have cried out to me in sincere and despairing appeal: 'Doctor, I cannot go on like this! I have everything to live for! I must stop, but I cannot! You must help me!'...One feels that something more than human power is needed to produce the essential psychic change. Though the aggregate of recoveries resulting from psychiatric effort is considerable, we physicians must admit we have made little impression upon the problem as a whole. Many types do not respond to the ordinary psychological approach.”
“When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.”
“The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.”
“Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.”
“Quiet moves often make a stronger impression than a wild combination with heavy sacrifices.”
“I'm not passive aggressive. If something bothers me, I think about it, then I act on it. I express it.”

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