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There is no other reality than present reality.

Alan Watts

The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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Impossible Love Realize Relationship Self Love Yourself
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
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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Discover Explore Home Reason Requirement Schedule Stay Surprise Travel
People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Concern Humble People Spiritual
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 past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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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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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Humanity Humor Knowledge Laugh Oneself
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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