We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
ALAN WATTSThere 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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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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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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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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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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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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