The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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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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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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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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The present is always changing the past.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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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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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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