Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
ALAN WATTSHuman desire tends to be insatiable.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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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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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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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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The present is always changing the past.
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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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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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