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.
ALAN WATTS
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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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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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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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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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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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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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 meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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