I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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 present is always changing the past.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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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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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 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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I owe my solitude to other people.
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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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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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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 religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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