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.
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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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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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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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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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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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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The source of all light is in the eye.
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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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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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The present is always changing the past.
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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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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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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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