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.
ALAN WATTSThe 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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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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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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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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There is no other reality than present reality.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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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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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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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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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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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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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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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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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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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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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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