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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

Alan Watts

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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Capacity Fear Future Heart Live Love Planning Valid Work
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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Achievement Alive Life Panic
The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Experience Mystery Problem Reality Solution
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
There is no other reality than present reality.
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Life Present Reality
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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Ocean Stranger Wave World
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
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
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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Discover Finding Imagination Pain Safety Seek
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Abstraction Future Past Reality
Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Duty Genius Guilt Knowledge Love Sense
We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Actual Confusion Money One Liner Wealth
I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Happen Maternity Sarcastic
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Communication Experience Share Words
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Capable Enjoyment Individual Satisfaction

Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

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