I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
ALAN WATTSThis is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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The menu is not the meal.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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The present is always changing the past.
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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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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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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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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.
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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 will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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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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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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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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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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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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