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No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan Watts
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We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
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But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
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The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
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But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
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The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
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The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
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Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.
Alan Watts
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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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
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