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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

Alan Watts

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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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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Complete Life Play Realize Secret Work
If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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 relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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Impossible Love Realize Relationship Self Love Yourself
The source of all light is in the eye.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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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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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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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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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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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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