Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
ALAN WATTSThe ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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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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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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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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 mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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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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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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