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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
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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Arise Heat Human Love Natural People Sun Time
Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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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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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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One Liner Owe People Solitude
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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Society is our extended mind and body.
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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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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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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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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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