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“To put it in another way, at each moment we are what we experience, and there is no real possibility of being other than what we are. Wisdom therefore consists in accepting what we are, rather than in struggling fruitlessly to be something else, as if it were possible to run away from one’s own feet.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Meaning of Happiness: The Quest for Freedom of the Spirit in Modern Psychology and the Wisdom of the East

“Great ones are willing to get burned time and again as they sharpen their swords in the fire.”
― Josh Waitzkin, The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence

“Life is not a matter of life or death; it is a matter of life and death, and ultimately there is nothing to be dreaded. There is nothing outside the universe, against which it can crash.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Two Hands of God: The Myths of Polarity

“Not only we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life.”
― Josh Waitzkin