Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
ALAN WATTSThe frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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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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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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No 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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The menu is not the meal.
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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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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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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 feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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