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You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.
The Sunset Limited
So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall.
The Crossing
He took advantage of the disorder and the night. In a world that was adrift, he felt perfectly comfortable.
Les Boulevards de Ceinture
Help the world to become better. Don't leave the world just the same as you have found it - make it a little better, make it a little more beautiful.
The Buddha Said...: Meeting the Challenge of Life's Difficulties
You should live in the world but remain untouched by it. You should remain in the world, but the world should not remain in you.
India, My Love
How can one be glad about the world except if one takes one's refuge in it?
The Zurau Aphorisms (25)
The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are right, for nothing has yet happened.
The Zurau Aphorisms (6)
The world was beautiful when looked at in this way � without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.
Siddhartha
The world had been divided into two parts that sought to annihilate each other because they both desired the same thing, namely the liberation of the oppressed, the elimination of violence, and the establishment of permanent peace.
The Fairy Tales
It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty, and all of it was just putrefaction that no one would admit to. Bitter was the taste of the world. Life was a torment.
Siddharta
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