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

Alan Watts

I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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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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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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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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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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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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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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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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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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