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.
ALAN WATTS
The source of all light is in the eye.
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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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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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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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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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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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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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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.
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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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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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