You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
ALAN WATTSWe 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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Society is our extended mind and body.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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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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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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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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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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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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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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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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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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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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