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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

Alan Watts

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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Constant Construction Ego Empty Expectation Future Memories Past Reality Regret
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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Nature System Trust Yourself
The present is always changing the past.
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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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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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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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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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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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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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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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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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