Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
ALAN WATTSNo work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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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 relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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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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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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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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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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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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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