Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN WATTSStay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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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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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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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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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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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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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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