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.
ALAN WATTSWhen 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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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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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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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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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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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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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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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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