The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
ALAN WATTSNever pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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I owe my solitude to other people.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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