For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
ALAN WATTSThe source of all light is in the eye.
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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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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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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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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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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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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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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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There is no other reality than present reality.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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