You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
ALAN WATTSThis 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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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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.
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Through 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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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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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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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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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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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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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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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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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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