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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Alan Watts

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
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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Faith Float Freedom Grab Relaxation Swim Trust Water Yourself
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Duty Genius Guilt Knowledge Love Sense
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
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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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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Discover Explore Home Reason Requirement Schedule Stay Surprise Travel
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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The menu is not the meal.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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The 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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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

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