Only doubtful truths need defense.
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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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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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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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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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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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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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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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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