The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
ALAN WATTSTo travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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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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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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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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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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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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