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 WATTSWe 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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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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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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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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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.
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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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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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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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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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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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