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.
ALAN WATTSPeople become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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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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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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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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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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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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