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

Alan Watts

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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Difficult Fascinate Frustration Individual Intelligence Oneself Wisdom
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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Bloom Giant Glory Heart Life Live Morning
You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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Science System
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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Nature System Trust Yourself
We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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Action Expression Individual Leaving Nature Ocean People Process Unique Universe Waves World
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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Conscious Glory Listen Magnificant Perceive Universe Witness
We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Actual Confusion Money One Liner Wealth
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Music Play Violin
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Communication Experience Share Words
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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Attempt Avoid Control Deep Exercise Power
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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Actual Command Feeling Love Pretend
The source of all light is in the eye.
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Eyes Light One Liner Reality Source Truth
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Far Telescope Vast

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