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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Alan Watts

Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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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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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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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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