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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

Alan Watts

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Actual Confusion Money One Liner Wealth
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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Ocean Stranger Wave World
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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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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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Alcohol Conscious Ourselves Philosophy
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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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Difficult Fascinate Frustration Individual Intelligence Oneself Wisdom
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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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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