People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
ALAN WATTSTo travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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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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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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The present is always changing the past.
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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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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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