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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.

Alan Watts

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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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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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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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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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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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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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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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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 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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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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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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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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.

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