People can’t be talked out of illusions.
ALAN WATTSSociety is our extended mind and body.
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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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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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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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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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There is no other reality than present reality.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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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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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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