Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
ALAN WATTSTo 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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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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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 frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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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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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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