The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
ALAN WATTSThrough 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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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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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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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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 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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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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