The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
ALAN WATTSLife is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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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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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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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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The present is always changing the past.
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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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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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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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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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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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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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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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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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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The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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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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The source of all light is in the eye.
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