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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

Alan Watts

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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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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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The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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