People can’t be talked out of illusions.
ALAN WATTSThis is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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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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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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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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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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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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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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