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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

Alan Watts

Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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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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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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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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