We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
ALAN WATTSWe 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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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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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 are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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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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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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