There is no other reality than present reality.
ALAN WATTSThe frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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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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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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The menu is not the meal.
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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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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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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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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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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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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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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