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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.

Alan Watts

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Duty Genius Guilt Knowledge Love Sense
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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I owe my solitude to other people.
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One Liner Owe People Solitude
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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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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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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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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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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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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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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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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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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