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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

Alan Watts

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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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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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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When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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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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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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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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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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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 past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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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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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

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