Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
ALAN WATTSNo 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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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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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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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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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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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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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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.
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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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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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I owe my solitude to other people.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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