The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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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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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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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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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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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