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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

Alan Watts

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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Belief Cling Faith God Let Go
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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Arrangement Comparison Constellation Look Night Stars Universe
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 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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Impossible Love Realize Relationship Self Love Yourself
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Abstraction Future Past Reality
I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Happen Maternity Sarcastic
Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Belief Faith Let Go One Liner
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
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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Function Ocean Process Universe Yourself
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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Clash False Purpose Reality Science Truth
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Attraction Content Inferior Material Package Pleasure Symbol
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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Nature System Trust Yourself
There is no other reality than present reality.
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Life Present Reality
The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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Frightened Meet Mind Run Seek Terror Want World

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