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

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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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 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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I owe my solitude to other people.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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The present is always changing the past.
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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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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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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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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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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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