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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Alan Watts

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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Discover Finding Imagination Pain Safety Seek
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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Available Description Indeed Language Notice Reality Words
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
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
If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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Belief Cling Faith God Let Go
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Life Permanent
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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Adequate Poetry Talk Words
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
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
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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Aline Clear Deep Inspirational Mud Patience Process Water
The 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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Constant Construction Ego Empty Expectation Future Memories Past Reality Regret
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
The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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Existence Future Illusion Past Present Reality
We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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Action Expression Individual Leaving Nature Ocean People Process Unique Universe Waves World
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

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