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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Life Permanent
If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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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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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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The menu is not the meal.
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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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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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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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Discover Explore Home Reason Requirement Schedule Stay Surprise Travel
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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Discover Explore Home Reason Requirement Schedule Stay Surprise Travel
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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I owe my solitude to other people.
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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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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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