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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

Alan Watts

To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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Alive Arrive Dead Proverb Travel
The source of all light is in the eye.
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Eyes Light One Liner Reality Source Truth
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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One Liner Reality
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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Afraid Darkness Finding Love
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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Book Consume Currency Eat Life Money Paper Real Scripture Wealth
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Delay Hurry Present Resistance Try
You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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Science System
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.
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Faith Float Freedom Grab Relaxation Swim Trust Water Yourself
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Abstraction Future Past Reality
The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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Civilization Meditation People Reality Reason Touch
If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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Nature System Trust Yourself
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
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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Change Dance Inspirational Join Move Reality Sense
It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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Life Misery Spend

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