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.
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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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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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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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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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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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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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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The menu is not the meal.
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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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