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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Abstraction Future Past Reality
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 you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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Afraid Darkness Finding Love
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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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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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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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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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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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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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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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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