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

Alan Watts

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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Change Dance Inspirational Join Move Reality Sense
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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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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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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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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Attitude Aware Environment Immense Learning Mirror Ourselves People Power Social Teaching
The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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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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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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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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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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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 feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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