Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
ALAN WATTSReal 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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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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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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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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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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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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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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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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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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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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The menu is not the meal.
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