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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 Watts, The Culture of Counter-Culture

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I can’t find the direct quote, but he said something like, we don’t have to do anything to experience our true nature, the problem is that people try to do nothing. I spent decades trying to do meditation. Liberation comes when one simply rests in stillness. The inner eye opens and one sees as...