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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.

Alan Watts

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
Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Duty Genius Guilt Knowledge Love Sense
The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Experience Mystery Problem Reality Solution
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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One Liner Reality
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
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
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering
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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Final Play Reach Writing
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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God Man Personal Religion Result Savior
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
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
People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Illusion Judgment One Liner People Talk
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World

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