"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."
-Alan Watts
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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.“
-Alan Watts
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
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"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."
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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
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"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present."
-Lao Tzu
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