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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.

Alan Watts

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
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
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
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
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
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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Aline Clear Deep Inspirational Mud Patience Process Water
Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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Attitude Aware Environment Immense Learning Mirror Ourselves People Power Social Teaching
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
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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Bloom Giant Glory Heart Life Live Morning
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
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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Complete Life Play Realize Secret Work
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
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
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
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
Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Alcohol Conscious Ourselves Philosophy

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