People can’t be talked out of illusions.
ALAN WATTSReality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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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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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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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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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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If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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