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Your soul isn't in your body your body is in your soul!
Alan Watts
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As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.
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The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops eating, but the man is never sure when to stop. When he has eaten as much as his belly can take, he still feels empty, he still feels an urge for further gratification.
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There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.
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In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.
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We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy.
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If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.
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I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.
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There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.
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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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The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies.
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We do not come into this world we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.
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How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.
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The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to be in the world (of social convention) but not of the world.
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What is the next step, the practical application? —I will answer that the absolutely vital thing is to consolidate your understanding, to become capable of enjoyment, of living in the present, and of the discipline which this involves. Without this you have nothing to give.
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I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.
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If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.
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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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To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.
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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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The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the gratification of a self which is no more than an idea, and the morrow which never comes.
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Faith is, above all, openness an act of trust in the unknown.
Alan Watts
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