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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

Alan Watts

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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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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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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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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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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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.
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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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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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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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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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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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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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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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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