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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

Alan Watts

Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Music Play Violin
One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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Deal Freedom Guilt Perfection Worry
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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Complete Life Play Realize Secret Work
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Forget Look Reality Universe World
I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Aware
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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Civilization Emotion Example Image Language Private Seldom Society Wisdom
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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Bridge Dangerous Insane Life Time
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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Advice Existence Expectation Guidance Influence Light Love Principle Room Rule Truth
The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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Alone Certain Deep exchange Isolation Joy Life Live Security Words World
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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Civilization Meditation People Reality Reason Touch
My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Death Disappear Particular Pattern Water
Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Deep Defense Doubt Need One Liner
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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Gone Imagination Night Sleep Wake Up
The present is always changing the past.
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Change Inspirational One Liner Past Present
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Persistent Philosophy Problem Question Suspect Wrong
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay

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