Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
ALAN WATTSPeople can’t be talked out of illusions.
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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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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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We 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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Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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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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