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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

Alan Watts

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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Abyss Chase Death Depend Expectation Future Happiness Ourselves
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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Function Ocean Process Universe Yourself
I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Aware
The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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Bloom Giant Glory Heart Life Live Morning
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
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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Existence Future Illusion Past Present Reality
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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Alone Certain Deep exchange Isolation Joy Life Live Security Words World
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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Adequate Poetry Talk Words
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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Change Dance Inspirational Join Move Reality Sense
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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Alive Arrive Dead Proverb Travel
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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Advice Existence Expectation Guidance Influence Light Love Principle Room Rule Truth
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Capable Enjoyment Individual Satisfaction
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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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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The present is always changing the past.
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Change Inspirational One Liner Past Present
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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Capacity Fear Future Heart Live Love Planning Valid Work

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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