The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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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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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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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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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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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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