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The menu is not the meal.

Alan Watts

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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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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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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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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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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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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The source of all light is in the eye.
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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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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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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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