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You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
Alan Watts
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The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
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Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.
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I have realized that 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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We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
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Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.
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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
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Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
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