You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
ALAN WATTSGenuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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The menu is not the meal.
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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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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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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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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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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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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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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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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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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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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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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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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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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