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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

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
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Duty Genius Guilt Knowledge Love Sense
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
Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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Arrangement Comparison Constellation Look Night Stars Universe
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
The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Experience Mystery Problem Reality Solution
Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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Attitude Aware Environment Immense Learning Mirror Ourselves People Power Social Teaching
The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Experience Mystery Problem Reality Solution
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Persistent Philosophy Problem Question Suspect Wrong
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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Gone Imagination Night Sleep Wake Up
The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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Clash False Purpose Reality Science Truth
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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Discover Explore Home Reason Requirement Schedule Stay Surprise Travel
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Music Play Violin
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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Destruction Hand People Process Realize Same Technology Universe
There is no other reality than present reality.
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Life Present Reality

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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