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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. – Alan Watts

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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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Meditation
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Alan Watts
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Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. – Alan Watts

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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. – Alan Watts

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God
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Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore. – Dorothy Bryant

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In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

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The truth is that it is natural, as well as necessary, for every man to be a vagabond occasionally. – Samuel H. Hammond

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People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. – Thomas Szasz, “Personal Conduct,” The Second Sin, 1973

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Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving ones self. – Priscilla Presley

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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone? – Bertolt Brecht

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First comes thought then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. – Napoleon Hill

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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. – Cesare Pavese

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