When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
ALAN WATTSProblems 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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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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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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The menu is not the meal.
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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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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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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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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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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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with 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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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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