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

Alan Watts

The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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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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I owe my solitude to other people.
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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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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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The menu is not the meal.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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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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The source of all light is in the eye.
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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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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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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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