The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
ALAN WATTSTo travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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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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Society is our extended mind and body.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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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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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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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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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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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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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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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