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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.

Alan Watts

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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The present is always changing the past.
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Change Inspirational One Liner Past Present
The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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Alone Certain Deep exchange Isolation Joy Life Live Security Words World
Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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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 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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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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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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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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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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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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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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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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