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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

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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Difficult Fascinate Frustration Individual Intelligence Oneself Wisdom
Society is our extended mind and body.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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Aline Clear Deep Inspirational Mud Patience Process Water
No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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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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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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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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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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