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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Alan Watts

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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Life Live Present
Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Alcohol Conscious Ourselves Philosophy
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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Advice Existence Expectation Guidance Influence Light Love Principle Room Rule Truth
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
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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Conscious Glory Listen Magnificant Perceive Universe Witness
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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Gone Imagination Night Sleep Wake Up
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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Ocean Physical Universe Wave
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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Available Description Indeed Language Notice Reality Words
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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Function Ocean Process Universe Yourself
The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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Civilization Meditation People Reality Reason Touch
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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Aline Clear Deep Inspirational Mud Patience Process Water
The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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Frightened Meet Mind Run Seek Terror Want World
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Humanity Humor Knowledge Laugh Oneself
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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Life Misery Spend
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Capable Enjoyment Individual Satisfaction
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Communication Experience Share Words

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

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