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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

Alan Watts

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
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Far Telescope Vast
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
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Concern Humble People Spiritual
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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Discover Explore Home Reason Requirement Schedule Stay Surprise Travel
You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Illusion Judgment One Liner People Talk
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
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
The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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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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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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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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