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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

Alan Watts

If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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Abandonment Blame Follow Past Present Reverse Situation Thinking
If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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