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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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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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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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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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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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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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The menu is not the meal.
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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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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

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