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.
ALAN WATTSI owe my solitude to other people.
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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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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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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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The present is always changing the past.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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 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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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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