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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

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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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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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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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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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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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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The present is always changing the past.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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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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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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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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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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