Existence is basically a kind of dancing or music—an immensely complex energy pattern which needs no explanation other than itself. Just as we do not ask what is the meaning of fugues by Bach or Mozart. We do not dance to reach a certain point on the floor, but simply to dance.

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

Belief clings, but faith lets go.

We seldom realize that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own.

How monotonous Earth would be if we all did it the same way.

We need, above all things, to slow down and get ourselves to amble through life instead of to rush through it.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

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.

The meaning of life is just to be alive.

You know, if you talk all the time you will never hear what anybody else has to say, and therefore all you'll have to talk about is your own conversation. The same is true for people who think all the time.

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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