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

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Life Permanent
What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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Discover Finding Imagination Pain Safety Seek
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Communication Experience Share Words
You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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Ocean Stranger Wave World
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
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
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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Convention Fatal Forget Serious Thinking
For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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Life Live Present
We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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Abandonment Blame Follow Past Present Reverse Situation Thinking
We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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Arise Heat Human Love Natural People Sun Time
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 mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Experience Mystery Problem Reality Solution
My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Death Disappear Particular Pattern Water
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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Black Statement Universe World

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