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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.

Alan Watts

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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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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If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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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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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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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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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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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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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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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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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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