Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
ALAN WATTSThe world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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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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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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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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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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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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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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