It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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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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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There is no other reality than present reality.
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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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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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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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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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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The menu is not the meal.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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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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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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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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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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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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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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