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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.

Alan Watts

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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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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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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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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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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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 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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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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