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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

Alan Watts

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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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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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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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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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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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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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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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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The present is always changing the past.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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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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