Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.

Jed McKenna
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When you are suffering, you are having a bad dream. When you are happy, you are having a good dream. When you are enlightened, you wake up from the dream and begin to live in the real world.

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