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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

Alan Watts

Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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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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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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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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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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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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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 mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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