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“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

“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

“But do not ask me where I am going,
As I travel in this limitless world,
Where every step I take is my home.
– Dogen Zenji”
― Steven Heine, The Zen Poetry of Dogen: Verses from the Mountain of Eternal Peace