Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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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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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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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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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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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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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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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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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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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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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 mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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