“those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.”
“those which arise dependently are free of inherent existence.”
“Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it. ”
“You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.”
“I have never sought to displease; I merely seek pleasure and avoid the pain it causes those who work to produce it. That is what it means to live by the leisure principle.”
“The inherent prejudice in unnaturally-produced nationalism causes a form of cultural blindness, which prevents us from seeing the obvious ways we could co-exist in the world as a co-operative human family.”