What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
ALAN WATTSThere is no other reality than present reality.
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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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The source of all light is in the eye.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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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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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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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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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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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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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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