You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
ALAN WATTSOther 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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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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The present is always changing the past.
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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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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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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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