Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
ALAN WATTSLike 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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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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The menu is not the meal.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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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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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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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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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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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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