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

Alan Watts

Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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Discover Explore Home Reason Requirement Schedule Stay Surprise Travel
Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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Attitude Aware Environment Immense Learning Mirror Ourselves People Power Social Teaching
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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Function Ocean Process Universe Yourself
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
Society is our extended mind and body.
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Body Extend Mind One Liner Society
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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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Happen Maternity Sarcastic
People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Concern Humble People Spiritual
To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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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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God Man Personal Religion Result Savior
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Forget Look Reality Universe World
Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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