The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
ALAN WATTSThere is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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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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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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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