This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged in the here and now — Alan 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.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

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