Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
ALAN WATTSHurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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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 world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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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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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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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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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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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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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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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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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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