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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

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
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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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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One Liner Owe People Solitude
The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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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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Complete Life Play Realize Secret Work
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
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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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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