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.
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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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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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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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The 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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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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