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

Alan Watts

In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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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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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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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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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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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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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

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