The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
ALAN WATTS
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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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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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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I owe my solitude to other people.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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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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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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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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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 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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