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

Alan Watts

Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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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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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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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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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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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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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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