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.

Quote by Alan Watts

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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...

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

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.

The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it...

The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it...

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

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

I owe my solitude to other people.

I owe my solitude to other people.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

I owe my solitude to other people.

I owe my solitude to other people.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

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.

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...

Saints need sinners.

Saints need sinners.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

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...

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an...

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an...

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself...

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself...

We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In...

We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In...

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance,...

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance,...

In this world of your parents' home, serve your Husband Lord; in the world beyond,...

In this world of your parents' home, serve your Husband Lord; in the world beyond,...

Middle age is Janus-faced. As we look back on our accomplishments and our failures to...

Middle age is Janus-faced. As we look back on our accomplishments and our failures to...