You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
ALAN WATTSIf you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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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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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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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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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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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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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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