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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 world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
The menu is not the meal.
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Food Meal Menu One Liner Philosophy
Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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Eternal Future Life Listen Live Music Present Sake
For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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Life Live Present
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
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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Conscious Glory Listen Magnificant Perceive Universe Witness
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Persistent Philosophy Problem Question Suspect Wrong
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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Change Deceive Thinking
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
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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Advice Existence Expectation Guidance Influence Light Love Principle Room Rule Truth
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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One Liner Reality
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
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Attraction Content Inferior Material Package Pleasure Symbol
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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Adequate Poetry Talk Words
If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Endless Future Inspirational Life Present
Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Act Faith One Liner Trust Unknown

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