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Society is our extended mind and body.

Alan Watts

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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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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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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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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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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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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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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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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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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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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