No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Quote by Alan Watts

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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't...

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't...

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea...

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea...

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave...

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave...

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding...

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding...

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they...

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they...

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which...

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which...

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not...

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not...

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen...

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen...

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to...

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to...

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand...

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand...

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to...

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to...

Saints need sinners.

Saints need sinners.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and...

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and...

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far...

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far...

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing...

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing...