People can’t be talked out of illusions.
ALAN WATTSThe mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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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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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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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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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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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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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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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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