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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.

Alan Watts

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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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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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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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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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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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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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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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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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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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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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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