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 WATTSLife is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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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 love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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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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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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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 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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Society is our extended mind and body.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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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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