For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
ALAN WATTSHuman desire tends to be insatiable.
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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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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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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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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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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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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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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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