Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
ALAN WATTSSociety is our extended mind and body.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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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.
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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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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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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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