You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
ALAN WATTSHuman desire tends to be insatiable.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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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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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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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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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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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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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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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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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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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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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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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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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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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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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