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We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin. – Alan Watts

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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. – Alan Watts

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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. – Alan Watts

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But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. – Alan Watts

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Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the mind medleys threaten to usurp your sanity. – Geneen Roth

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To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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Meditation has to become your heartbeat; even when you are asleep the meditation continues like an undercurrent – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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