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.
ALAN WATTSThrough our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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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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Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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