A based quote
"Our association of our true self with the constant voice in our head is an instance of mistaking the map (the voice) for the territory (who we really are)."
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"What if the way to 'win' the game of life is to discover experientially that it's all a game in the first place and that you are the creator of the game? I emphasize the experience of this discovery, and I suggest that this is what happened to the Buddha, Laotzu, and other ancient masters from the East so long ago. In their case, identification with the self collapsed, and so did all the mental suffering that went with it."
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