I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
ALAN WATTSIf 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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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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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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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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We 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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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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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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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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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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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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