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    Alan W. 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.”
    ― Alan Wilson Watts, The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts
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    Alan W. Watts
    “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.”
    ― Alan Watts
    tags: life, play, work
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    Alan W. Watts
    “Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
    ― Alan Wilson Watts
    tags: buddhism, metaphysics, philosophy, religion, tao, taoism, theology, zen
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    Alan W. Watts
    “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.”
    ― Alan Wilson Watts
    tags: harmony, self, universe
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    Alan W. Watts
    “Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.”
    ― Alan Watts
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    Alan W. Watts
    “One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.”
    ― Alan Wilson Watts, Psychotherapy East and West
    tags: mindfulness, psychology
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    Alan W. Watts
    “You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.”
    ― Alan Watts
    tags: flickr
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    Alan W. Watts
    “But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.”
    ― Alan Wilson Watts
    tags: reality-philosophy-buddhism
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    Alan W. Watts
    “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.”
    ― Alan Wilson Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
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    Alan W. Watts
    “It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play. And they look upon the whole manifestation of all the universes as a play, as a sport, as a kind of dance — lila perhaps being somewhat related to our word lilt”
    ― Alan Watts, Zen and the Beat Way
    tags: creation, god, play
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    Alan W. Watts
    “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
    ― Alan Watts
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: humanity, individuals, love, mankind
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The soul is healed by being with children.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
    tags: children, healing, humility, inspiration, love, openness, society
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
    tags: happiness, man, trouble
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: hell, love, suffering
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: goals-in-life, purpose-of-life
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    Friedrich Schiller
    “Every true genius is bound to be naive.”
    ― Friedrich Schiller
    tags: drama, intelligence
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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  • #22
    Isaac Asimov
    “Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: books, censorship, reading
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