Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
ALAN WATTSWhen 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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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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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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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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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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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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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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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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