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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

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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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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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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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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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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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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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

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