People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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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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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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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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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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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 mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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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To 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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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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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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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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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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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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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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