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.
ALAN WATTSThe past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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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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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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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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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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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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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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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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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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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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