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Alan Watts Quote - 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.

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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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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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There is no other reality than present reality.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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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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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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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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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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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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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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