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 WATTSThe meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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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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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Life 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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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