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• The traditional manner of taking psilocybin is to take a very healthy dose, in the vicinity of 15 mg. on an empty stomach in total darkness.

  Terence McKenna

  Healthy, Darkness, Psilocybin

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• Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good technique is. I mean, you sit down, you shut up, and you pay attention is basically the good technique. And then the footnotes add; on an empty stomach, in a dark room, feeling comfortable.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Dark, Feelings

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• An open mind isn't the same thing as an empty head.

  Hal Urban

  Mind, Open Mind, Empty Heads

  Hal Urban (2005). “Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• True, this world of ours is full of hatred and disbelief, but that is no reason why we should not love and why we should not believe. We must love and believe in order to empty the hatred-sea.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Believe, Order, Sea

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• Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.

  Zhuangzi

  Waiting, Listening, Mind

  Zhuangzi, Burton Watson, Columbia College (Columbia University) (1968). “The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu”, p.58, Columbia University Press

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• The God of the theologians is the creation of their empty heads.

  Benito Mussolini

  Creation, Theologian, Empty Heads

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• Through my college years, topping that ridge had always given me a great sense of being home, but time had diminished the emotion and I had begun to suspect that home was less a place than an empty page.

  Larry McMurtry

  Home, College, Years

  Larry McMurtry (1968). “In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas”

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• The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the experts, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all possibilities.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Doubt, Mind, Experts

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step. Proofs are excellent lessons in reasoning. Without logic and reasoning, you are dependent on jumping to conclusions or - worse - having empty opinions.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Thinking, Jumping, Lessons

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• I believe I can steal Fairfax's reputation in six months. It is an empty edifice. It has collapsed.

  Margo Kingston

  Believe, Six, Months

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• I don't like television and movies where it's like, "Well, that was entertaining, but when I think back on it, that didn't really make sense and it's empty." That's like junk food, to me.

  Frank Spotnitz

  Thinking, Junk, Television

  Source: collider.com

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• Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel.

  Eleanor Brown

  Selfish, Empty Vessels, Care

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• The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of empty sounds.

  Joseph Conrad

  Lying, Men, Waiting

  Joseph Conrad (2010). “Lord Jim”, p.112, Bibliolis Books

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• The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Life Is, Illusion, Pleasure

  Giacomo Leopardi (1987). “Leopardi: Poems and Prose”, Praeger Pub Text

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• Y is for YGGDRASIL. The legendary Nordic ash tree with its three roots extending into the lands of mortals, giants, and Niflheim, the land of mist, grows in Wisconsin. Legend has it that when the tree falls, the universe will fall. Next Wednesday, the State Highway Commission comes through that empty pasture with a freeway.

  Harlan Ellison

  Fall, Roots, Land

  Harlan Ellison (1978). “Strange wine: fifteen new stories from the nightside of the world”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The Zen Master warns: 'If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!' This admonition points up that no meaning that comes from outside of ourselves is real. The Buddhahood of each of us has already been obtained. We need only recognize it. Philosophy, religion, patriotism, all are empty idols. The only meaning in our lives is what we each bring to them. Killing the Buddha on the road means destroying the hope that anything outside of ourselves can be out master. No one is any bigger than anyone else. There are no mothers or fathers for grown-ups, only sisters and brothers.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Mother, Brother, Father

  SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

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• We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one thing that is hard to deliver it feels funny being free.

  Amy Ray

  Being Free, Causes, Innocent

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• A very awkward situation occurs often in New York City when you are walking down a relatively empty sidewalk and there happens to be a person walking right next to you in the same direction as you at the exact same pace as you. I never know whether to pass or draft. It becomes sort of a strange competition.

  Aaron Karo

  New York, Cities, Competition

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• The saving of empty beer and liquor bottles is a strange college phenomenon. I bet most of you college students reading this right now have some empties on a shelf in your room. Everyone knows how much college kids like to drink, do we really need to display it? It's a good thing, though, that this trend stops after college. Wouldn't it be weird if your parents had empty wine bottles up on their bedroom wall?

  Aaron Karo

  Wall, Reading, Wine

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• Research at the subatomic quantum level reveals an invisible connection between all particles and all members of a given species. This oneness is being demonstrated in remarkable scientific discoveries. The findings show that physical distance, what we think of as empty space, does not preclude a connection by invisible forces. Obviously there exist invisible connections between our thoughts and our actions. We do not deny this, even though the connection is impervious to our senses.

  Wayne Dyer

  Distance, Thinking, Discovery

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• Nonconformity is an empty goal, and rebellion against prevailing opinion merely because it is prevailing should no more be praised than acquiescence to it. Indeed, it is often a mask for cowardice, and few are more pathetic than those who flaunt outer differences to expiate their inner surrender.

  William H. Whyte

  Differences, Goal, Acquiescence

  William H. Whyte (2013). “The Organization Man”, p.10, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• If God is in Heaven, Hell is empty.

  Kedar Joshi

  Heaven, Hell, Ifs

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• The more I accomplish the more I realize how empty my life is.

  Behdad Sami

  Realizing, Life Is, Accomplish

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• Living in fear is what every hater, negative person, and the devil wants. Live a righteous life with God and nothing but positivity. You must forgive anyone who has done you dirty, and move on. Your personal life, career, and love life will be that much more amazing after. Life is too short to live it being empty inside, sad, angry, and defensive just to hide your pain. Let it all go and let love and happiness in. Put yourself out there all the way and don't be fearful of losing love. If you don't live life by fully enjoying it and opening your heart, your just not living.

  Behdad Sami

  Pain, Dirty, Live Life

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• The bashful beggar has an empty purse.

  William Cranch Bond

  Purses, Beggar, Bashful

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