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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Alan Watts

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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Faith Float Freedom Grab Relaxation Swim Trust Water Yourself
When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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The menu is not the meal.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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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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Attitude Aware Environment Immense Learning Mirror Ourselves People Power Social Teaching
Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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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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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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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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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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Discover Explore Home Reason Requirement Schedule Stay Surprise Travel
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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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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