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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.

Alan Watts

We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Actual Confusion Money One Liner Wealth
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
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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Arrangement Comparison Constellation Look Night Stars Universe
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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Arrangement Deal Experience Hospital Interesting Learning Sick
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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Faith Float Freedom Grab Relaxation Swim Trust Water Yourself
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
The 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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Clash False Purpose Reality Science Truth
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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Actual Command Feeling Love Pretend
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Capable Enjoyment Individual Satisfaction
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
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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Civilization Meditation People Reality Reason Touch
To 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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Alive Arrive Dead Proverb Travel
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Forget Look Reality Universe World

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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