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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Alan Watts

We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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Abandonment Blame Follow Past Present Reverse Situation Thinking
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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Life Misery Spend
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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One Liner Reality
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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Afraid Darkness Finding Love
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Forget Look Reality Universe World
The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Experience Mystery Problem Reality Solution
I owe my solitude to other people.
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One Liner Owe People Solitude
To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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Alive Arrive Dead Proverb Travel
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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Black Statement Universe World
The menu is not the meal.
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Food Meal Menu One Liner Philosophy
The present is always changing the past.
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Change Inspirational One Liner Past Present
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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Bridge Dangerous Insane Life Time
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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Arrangement Deal Experience Hospital Interesting Learning Sick
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Abstraction Future Past Reality
You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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Science System

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