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.
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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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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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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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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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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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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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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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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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 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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