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.
ALAN WATTSThe past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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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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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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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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The 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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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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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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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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