The source of all light is in the eye.
ALAN WATTSThe world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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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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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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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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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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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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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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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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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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