You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
ALAN WATTSThe 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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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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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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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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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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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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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