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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

Alan Watts

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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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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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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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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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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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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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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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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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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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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