We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
ALAN WATTS
If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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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 you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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