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.
ALAN WATTSThe only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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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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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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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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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 more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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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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