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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

Alan Watts

If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Endless Future Inspirational Life Present
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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Ego Finding Sensation Skin
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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Alone Certain Deep exchange Isolation Joy Life Live Security Words World
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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Convention Fatal Forget Serious Thinking
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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Action Decision Feeling Follow Happen Voluntary
One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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Deal Freedom Guilt Perfection Worry
The source of all light is in the eye.
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Eyes Light One Liner Reality Source Truth
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Concern Humble People Spiritual
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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Ocean Stranger Wave World
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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Abandonment Blame Follow Past Present Reverse Situation Thinking
For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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Life Live Present
The present is always changing the past.
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Change Inspirational One Liner Past Present
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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Change Dance Inspirational Join Move Reality Sense

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

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