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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.

Alan Watts

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
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Abstraction Future Past Reality
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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Convention Fatal Forget Serious Thinking
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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Difficult Fascinate Frustration Individual Intelligence Oneself Wisdom
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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Ocean Stranger Wave World
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Music Play Violin
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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Function Ocean Process Universe Yourself
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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Faith Float Freedom Grab Relaxation Swim Trust Water Yourself
People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Illusion Judgment One Liner People Talk
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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Destruction Hand People Process Realize Same Technology Universe
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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Deal Freedom Guilt Perfection Worry
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Communication Experience Share Words
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
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
What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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Discover Finding Imagination Pain Safety Seek
Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Deep Defense Doubt Need One Liner

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