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Alan W. Watts Quotes: 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.
         

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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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.



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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.



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I have realized that 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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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.



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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.



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The source of all light is in the eye.



Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.





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