Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
ALAN WATTSThe 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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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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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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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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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 happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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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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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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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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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.
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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 are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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 and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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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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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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