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.
ALAN WATTSThe world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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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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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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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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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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The menu is not the meal.
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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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