You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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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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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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Society is our extended mind and body.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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