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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.

Alan Watts

In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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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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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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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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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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The menu is not the meal.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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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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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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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The present is always changing the past.
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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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