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.
ALAN WATTSThe 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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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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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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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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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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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 only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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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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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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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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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 one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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