Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
ALAN WATTS
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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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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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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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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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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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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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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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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