The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
ALAN WATTSThe more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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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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The present is always changing the past.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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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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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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