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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

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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Ocean Stranger Wave World
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Alcohol Conscious Ourselves Philosophy
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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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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If 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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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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Life Present Reality
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 art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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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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