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This 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.

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
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Communication Experience Share Words
People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Illusion Judgment One Liner People Talk
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
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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Action Decision Feeling Follow Happen Voluntary
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
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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Constant Construction Ego Empty Expectation Future Memories Past Reality Regret
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Delay Hurry Present Resistance Try
I owe my solitude to other people.
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One Liner Owe People Solitude
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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Destruction Hand People Process Realize Same Technology Universe
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering
People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Concern Humble People Spiritual
The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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Clash False Purpose Reality Science Truth
There is no other reality than present reality.
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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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Future Inspirational Night Present Significance

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