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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

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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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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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There is no other reality than present reality.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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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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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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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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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 past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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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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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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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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