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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.

Alan Watts

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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Function Ocean Process Universe Yourself
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
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
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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Civilization Emotion Example Image Language Private Seldom Society Wisdom
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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Arrangement Deal Experience Hospital Interesting Learning Sick
Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Deep Defense Doubt Need One Liner
The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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Bloom Giant Glory Heart Life Live Morning
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
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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Bridge Dangerous Insane Life Time
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Life Permanent
Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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Gone Imagination Night Sleep Wake Up
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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Ocean Physical Universe Wave
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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Actual Aware Awareness Beginning Future Live Past Present Real World

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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