Human desire tends to be insatiable.
ALAN WATTSI have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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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The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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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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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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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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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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