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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.

Alan Watts

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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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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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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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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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 past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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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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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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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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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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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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