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• Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.
  -- Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...
• Trials never end, of course. Unhappiness and misfortune are bound to occur as long as people live
  but there is a feeling now, that was not here before, and is not just on the surface of things, but penetrates all the way through...
• When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog along to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes.
  The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten....
• The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower.
  To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha -- which is to demean oneself....