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The source of all light is in the eye.

Alan Watts

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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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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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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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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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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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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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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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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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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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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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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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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The source of all light is in the eye.

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