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" Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. "
Alan Watts
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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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" You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. "
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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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" The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. "
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" Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it. "
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" And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. "
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" So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. "
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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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" But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. "
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" Faith is a state of openness or trust. "
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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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" We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. "
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" We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us. "
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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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" 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 style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. "
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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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" You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. "
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" But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. "
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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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" 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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" 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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