Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
ALAN WATTSWhat we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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The menu is not the meal.
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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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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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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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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 only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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