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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

Alan Watts

Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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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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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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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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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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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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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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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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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

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