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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.

Alan Watts

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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Constant Construction Ego Empty Expectation Future Memories Past Reality Regret
We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Actual Confusion Money One Liner Wealth
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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Impossible Love Realize Relationship Self Love Yourself
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Inspirational Learning Scholar Student Try
Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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Arrangement Deal Experience Hospital Interesting Learning Sick
If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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Belief Cling Faith God Let Go
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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Attempt Avoid Control Deep Exercise Power
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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Connection Life Mouth Move Ocean Reality Separate Source Water
You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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Final Play Reach Writing
Society is our extended mind and body.
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Body Extend Mind One Liner Society
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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Discover Explore Home Reason Requirement Schedule Stay Surprise Travel
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Music Play Violin
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Capable Enjoyment Individual Satisfaction
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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Clash False Purpose Reality Science Truth
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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Arrive Dance Discover Life Meditation Nusic Play

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