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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

Alan Watts

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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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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Experience Mystery Problem Reality Solution
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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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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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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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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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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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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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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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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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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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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