The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
ALAN WATTSWhen you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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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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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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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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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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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 is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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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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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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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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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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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