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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

Alan Watts

In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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Connection Life Mouth Move Ocean Reality Separate Source Water
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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The menu is not the meal.
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Food Meal Menu One Liner Philosophy
We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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Action Expression Individual Leaving Nature Ocean People Process Unique Universe Waves World
Society is our extended mind and body.
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Body Extend Mind One Liner Society
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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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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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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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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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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The present is always changing the past.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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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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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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