The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
ALAN WATTSNo one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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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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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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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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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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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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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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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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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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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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The present is always changing the past.
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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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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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 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 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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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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