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

Alan Watts

Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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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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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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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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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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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