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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

Alan Watts

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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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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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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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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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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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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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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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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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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