The source of all light is in the eye.
ALAN WATTSThe meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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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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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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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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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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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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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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