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The source of all light is in the eye.

Alan Watts

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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Change Deceive Thinking
In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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Connection Life Mouth Move Ocean Reality Separate Source Water
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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Arrive Dance Discover Life Meditation Nusic Play
Society is our extended mind and body.
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Body Extend Mind One Liner Society
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Life Permanent
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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Life Live Present
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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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Endless Future Inspirational Life Present
If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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Action Decision Feeling Follow Happen Voluntary
Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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Attitude Aware Environment Immense Learning Mirror Ourselves People Power Social Teaching
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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Future Inspirational Night Present Significance
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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