The present is always changing the past.
ALAN WATTSReal 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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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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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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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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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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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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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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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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