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Alan Watts

The Meaning of Happiness

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    asks it to be borne in mind that every human being speaks a different language and that sometimes it seems as if words were made to conceal thoughts.
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    namely the philosophy of ancient Asia and certain aspects of modern psychology.
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    does not name a single thing which one can do in order to become happy.
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    happiness of the profoundest kind is beyond the reach of any technique under the sun.
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    When this is realized in fact, and, I repeat, not in theory alone, there comes into being that state of liberation or release from self-tension which is the meaning of moksha and nirvana, and Tao—the creative power of life—flows forth freely, no longer blocked by the attempt to turn it back on itself.
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    impossible task of self-love.
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    that the knower is separate from his knowledge, the known.
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    He suffocates from holding his breath.
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    So that is what millions of human beings make themselves perfectly miserable trying to do. T
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    It is only when you seek it that you lose it.

    You cannot take hold of it, nor can you get rid of it;

    While you can do neither, it goes on its own way.

    You remain silent and it speaks; you speak and it is silent.

    So what?
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