You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
ALAN WATTSTo 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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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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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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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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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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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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