My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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 frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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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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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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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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If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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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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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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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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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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The 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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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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