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.
ALAN WATTSSociety is our extended mind and body.
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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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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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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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The menu is not the meal.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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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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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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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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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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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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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