You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
ALAN WATTSMan suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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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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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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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 present is always changing the past.
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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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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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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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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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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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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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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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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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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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