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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.

Alan Watts

You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Delay Hurry Present Resistance Try
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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Deal Freedom Guilt Perfection Worry
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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Impossible Love Realize Relationship Self Love Yourself
Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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Change Deceive Thinking
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Forget Look Reality Universe World
Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Belief Faith Let Go One Liner
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
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
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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Faith Float Freedom Grab Relaxation Swim Trust Water Yourself
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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Afraid Darkness Finding Love
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
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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Civilization Emotion Example Image Language Private Seldom Society Wisdom
There is no other reality than present reality.
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Life Present Reality
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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Actual Command Feeling Love Pretend

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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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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