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.
ALAN WATTSThe 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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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist 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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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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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.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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The present is always changing the past.
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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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