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 WATTSBelief clings, but faith lets go.
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The present is always changing the past.
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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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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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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 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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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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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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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Life 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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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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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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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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