If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social environment. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.

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Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

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Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.

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Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

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To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is no escape. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

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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. ― Alan Watts

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