We confuse money with actual wealth.
ALAN WATTSThe religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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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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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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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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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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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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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I owe my solitude to other people.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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