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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.

Alan Watts

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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Arrive Dance Discover Life Meditation Nusic Play
Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Act Faith One Liner Trust Unknown
I owe my solitude to other people.
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One Liner Owe People Solitude
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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Available Description Indeed Language Notice Reality Words
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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Function Ocean Process Universe Yourself
People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Illusion Judgment One Liner People Talk
My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Death Disappear Particular Pattern Water
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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Book Consume Currency Eat Life Money Paper Real Scripture Wealth
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Deep Defense Doubt Need One Liner
It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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Life Misery Spend
If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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Abyss Chase Death Depend Expectation Future Happiness Ourselves
When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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Afraid Darkness Finding Love
Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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God Man Personal Religion Result Savior
Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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Discover Explore Home Reason Requirement Schedule Stay Surprise Travel
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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Connection Life Mouth Move Ocean Reality Separate Source Water

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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