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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.

Alan Watts

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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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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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The menu is not the meal.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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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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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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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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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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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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I owe my solitude to other people.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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