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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.

Alan Watts

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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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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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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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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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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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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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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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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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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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 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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Achievement Alive Life Panic
We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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