Society is our extended mind and body.
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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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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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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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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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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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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 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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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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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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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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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 confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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