Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
ALAN WATTSThe mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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There is no other reality than present 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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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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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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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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