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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.

Alan Watts

The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
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’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
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
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Far Telescope Vast
The source of all light is in the eye.
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Eyes Light One Liner Reality Source Truth
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
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
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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Impossible Love Realize Relationship Self Love Yourself
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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Conscious Glory Listen Magnificant Perceive Universe Witness
Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Deep Defense Doubt Need One Liner
Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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Eternal Future Life Listen Live Music Present Sake
If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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Black Statement Universe World
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
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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Deal Freedom Guilt Perfection Worry
This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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Complete Life Play Realize Secret Work

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