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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Alan Watts

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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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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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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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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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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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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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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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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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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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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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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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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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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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

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