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.
ALAN WATTSThe clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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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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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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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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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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The menu is not the meal.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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