Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
ALAN WATTSThe 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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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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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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 only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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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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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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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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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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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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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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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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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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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