Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN WATTS
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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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 future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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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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If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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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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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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