The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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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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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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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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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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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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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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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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