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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

Alan Watts

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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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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Faith Float Freedom Grab Relaxation Swim Trust Water Yourself
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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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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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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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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Faith Float Freedom Grab Relaxation Swim Trust Water Yourself
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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