What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
ALAN WATTSThe only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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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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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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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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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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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I owe my solitude to other people.
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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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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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