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Alan Watts Quote - What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

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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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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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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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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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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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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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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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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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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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