The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, cut off from the richness of life.

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"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command."

- Alan Watts

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"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention."

- Alan Watts

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"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."

- Alan Watts

Awareness

"Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them."

- Alan Watts

Awareness

"What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously."

- Alan Watts

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"As we discover God, sometimes unexpected answers to prayers take us from the street, bring us to community, chase darkness from our souls, and guide us to find spiritual refuge and belonging in the goodness of His covenants and abiding love."

Connection to Earth

"We are all like fireworks: we climb, we shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even when that time comes, let’s not disappear like a firework and continue to shine forever."

- Hitsugaya Toshiro

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"Alone, you feel nothing but insecurity; that’s why we form guilds, that’s why we have friends. We walk together in order to live a strong life."

- Makarov Dreyar

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"Even if we forget the faces of our friends, We will never forget the bonds that were carved into our souls."

- Otonashi Yuzuru

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"No single thing is perfect by itself. That’s why we’re born to attract other things to make up for what we lack. I think we start walking in the right direction only after we start getting our counterparts besides us."

- Itachi Uchiha

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