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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.

Alan Watts

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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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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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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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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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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The present is always changing the past.
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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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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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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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