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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

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The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

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Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us.

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...for since there is no real 'way' to sartori, the way you are following makes very little difference.

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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

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You're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe...

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The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

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If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.

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A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.

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The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad one at that, since he has given no thought to his position.

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Zen... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

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To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

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To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.

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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.

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If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself. Not conceive, but feel yourself, not as a stranger in the world, not as someone here on sufferance, on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke, but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental. What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

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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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We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality.

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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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Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

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By going out of your mind, you come to your senses

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