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“Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.” quote by Alan Watts — Download Open image

“Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.”

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“The self-conscious feedback mechanism of the cortex allows us the hallucination that we are two souls in one body -a rational soul and an animal soul, a rider and a horse, a good guy with better instincts and finer feelings and a rascal with rapacious lusts and untruly passions. Hence the marvelously involved hypocrisies of guilt and penitence, and the…

The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clutch water in…

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The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

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If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me…

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

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The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.

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Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity,…

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Everything is perpetually becoming new.

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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…

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“As you make more and more powerful microscopic instruments, the universe has to get smaller and smaller in order to escape the investigation. Just as when the telescopes become more and more powerful, the galaxies have to recede in order to get away from the telescopes. Because what is happening in all these investigations is this: Through us and through…

We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the attitude of attacking the unknown. And that causes us not to realize that we are already on the most magnificently equipped spaceship, which could hardly be improved upon. It has got a source of temperature and…

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

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The force that drives the green fuse, as Dylan Thomas said, cannot be understood. So self-discovery is to accept your daily meditation, to observe…

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Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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“Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.- Albert Einstein Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.”

Carol P. Christ

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.

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“Daily meditation promotes self confidence, peace of mind and strong faith in God.”

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

George MacDonald

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Meditation creates more time than it takes.

Peter McWilliams

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I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the…

Robert Anton Wilson

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Daring to me is having courage; it's a daily meditation to take breath and find strength.

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Every man must take time daily for quiet and meditation. In daily meditation lies the secret of power.

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I used to think that people who regarded everyone benignly were a mite simple or oblivious or just plain lax-until I tried it myself.…

Marc Ian Barasch

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“Meditation reduces stress and increases mental focus. In fact, high levels of stress can damage both your mental and physical health. You can also…

Alexis G. Roldan

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