Everything is a gift of the universe--even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment._ Ken Keyes Jr.

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After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all? ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago. ― Alan Watts

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To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.

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Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. ― Madeleine L'Engle

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You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.― Sharon Salzberg

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