For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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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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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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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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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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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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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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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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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