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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

Alan Watts

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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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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Actual Aware Awareness Beginning Future Live Past Present Real World
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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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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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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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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The menu is not the meal.
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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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Complete Life Play Realize Secret Work
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.
ALAN WATTS

Discover Explore Home Reason Requirement Schedule Stay Surprise Travel

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

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