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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Alan Watts

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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The present is always changing the past.
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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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Alone Certain Deep exchange Isolation Joy Life Live Security Words World
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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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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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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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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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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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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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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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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