Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
ALAN WATTSThe past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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The menu is not the meal.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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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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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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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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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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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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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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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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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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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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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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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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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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