And can you think clearly if you have a prejudice, a particular belief - that is, if you think as a Hindu, a communist, or a Christian? Surely you can think very clearly only when your mind is not tethered to a belief as a monkey might be tethered to a stake; you can think very clearly only when you have no prejudice - all...
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5alvani:
Very true... but it has been my experience that the filters I have created overtime are so built in that even when I truly am convinced that I am free from all my default securities and can see truth... something brings me to face my weakness and I am back to the starting point.... 
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But...
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mrpalomar:
the beach
I want to be eaten by worms when I'm dead.
I want to be eaten by worms when I'm dead.
Not preserved, no restoration, no viewing...
Antiseptic lifestyles, institutionalized fear of the earth.
Years gone by since we first scrubbed till we bled,
to remove decay and death.
Clean, sterile, new.
Impure thoughts, violent tendencies, irrational behavior...
Memories lost of the clarity of existence, stability...
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I want to be eaten by worms when I'm dead.
Not preserved, no restoration, no viewing...
Antiseptic lifestyles, institutionalized fear of the earth.
Years gone by since we first scrubbed till we bled,
to remove decay and death.
Clean, sterile, new.
Impure thoughts, violent tendencies, irrational behavior...
Memories lost of the clarity of existence, stability...
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hi