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

Alan Watts

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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Ocean Physical Universe Wave
When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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Ego Finding Sensation Skin
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Abstraction Future Past Reality
The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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The menu is not the meal.
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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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Experience Mystery Problem Reality Solution
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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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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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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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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Discover Finding Imagination Pain Safety Seek
We 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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

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