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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.

Alan Watts

Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Deep Defense Doubt Need One Liner
If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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Nature System Trust Yourself
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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Ego Finding Sensation Skin
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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Change Dance Inspirational Join Move Reality Sense
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Attraction Content Inferior Material Package Pleasure Symbol
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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Civilization Emotion Example Image Language Private Seldom Society Wisdom
We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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Action Expression Individual Leaving Nature Ocean People Process Unique Universe Waves World
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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One Liner Reality
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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Complete Life Play Realize Secret Work
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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Capacity Fear Future Heart Live Love Planning Valid Work
The source of all light is in the eye.
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Eyes Light One Liner Reality Source Truth
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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Anxiety Dead Each Other Equality Laugh Priest Religion Transformation
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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Abandonment Blame Follow Past Present Reverse Situation Thinking
Society is our extended mind and body.
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Body Extend Mind One Liner Society
If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Endless Future Inspirational Life Present
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner

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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