Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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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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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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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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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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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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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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