People think it would be nice to have peace of mind, to be serene, to be calm, to be undisturbed by this, that, and the other. But as long as you make all those things objects of desire, you have defined yourself as lacking them.

Alan Watts

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Just close your eyes and come and meet me in that place where we can share the music of our silence.

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Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.

Each place is the right place--the place where I now am can be a sacred space.

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