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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

Alan Watts

If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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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
My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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Eyes Light One Liner Reality Source Truth
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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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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The menu is not the meal.
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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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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
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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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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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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

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