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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

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
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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Life Misery Spend
The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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Impossible Love Realize Relationship Self Love Yourself
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Forget Look Reality Universe World
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
We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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Abandonment Blame Follow Past Present Reverse Situation Thinking
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
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
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Abstraction Future Past Reality
Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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Discover Explore Home Reason Requirement Schedule Stay Surprise Travel
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Actual Confusion Money One Liner Wealth
Society is our extended mind and body.
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Body Extend Mind One Liner Society
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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Complete Life Play Realize Secret Work
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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Action Decision Feeling Follow Happen Voluntary

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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