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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Alan Watts

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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Bridge Dangerous Insane Life Time
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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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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Civilization Meditation People Reality Reason Touch
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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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Abandonment Blame Follow Past Present Reverse Situation Thinking
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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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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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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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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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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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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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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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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