Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
ALAN WATTSHurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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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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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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The menu is not the meal.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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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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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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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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