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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

Alan Watts

You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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Ocean Stranger Wave 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
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
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
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
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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Connection Life Mouth Move Ocean Reality Separate Source Water
Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Alcohol Conscious Ourselves Philosophy
For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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Life Live Present
If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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Nature System Trust Yourself
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
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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Adequate Poetry Talk Words
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Abstraction Future Past Reality
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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Constant Construction Ego Empty Expectation Future Memories Past Reality Regret
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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Faith Float Freedom Grab Relaxation Swim Trust Water Yourself
Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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Gone Imagination Night Sleep Wake Up

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

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