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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

Alan Watts

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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Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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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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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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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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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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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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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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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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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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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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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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