People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
ALAN WATTSIf happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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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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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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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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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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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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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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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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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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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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The present is always changing the past.
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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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