Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
ALAN WATTSNo one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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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 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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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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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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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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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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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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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