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.
ALAN WATTSMuddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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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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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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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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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