Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
ALAN WATTSIf the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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The present is always changing the past.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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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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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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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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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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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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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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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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