The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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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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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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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 mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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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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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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