I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
ALAN WATTSHurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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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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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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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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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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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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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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