You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
ALAN WATTSWe seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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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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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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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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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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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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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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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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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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There is no other reality than present reality.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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