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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

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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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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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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Achievement Alive Life Panic
We confuse money with actual wealth.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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Eyes Light One Liner Reality Source 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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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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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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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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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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One Liner Reality

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