The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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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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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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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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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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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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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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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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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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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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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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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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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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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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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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