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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

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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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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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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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 source of all light is in the eye.
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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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