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" Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. "
Alan Watts
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" But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. "
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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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" Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. "
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" Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. "
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" The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. "
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" But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything. "
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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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" You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. "
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" So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level. "
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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. "
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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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" 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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" If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly. "
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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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" Faith is a state of openness or trust. "
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" No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. "
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" But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. "
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" In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. "
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" And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment. "
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" We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us. "
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" You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. "
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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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" A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. "
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" So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing. "
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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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" I owe my solitude to other people. "
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" Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver. "
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