People can’t be talked out of illusions.
ALAN WATTS
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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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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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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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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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.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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