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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Watts

The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Experience Mystery Problem Reality Solution
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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Civilization Emotion Example Image Language Private Seldom Society Wisdom
There is no other reality than present reality.
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Life Present Reality
For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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Life Live Present
You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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Science System
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Life Permanent
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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Destruction Hand People Process Realize Same Technology Universe
The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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Bloom Giant Glory Heart Life Live Morning
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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Function Ocean Process Universe Yourself
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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Available Description Indeed Language Notice Reality Words
I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Happen Maternity Sarcastic
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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Conscious Glory Listen Magnificant Perceive Universe Witness
We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Actual Confusion Money One Liner Wealth
The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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Alone Certain Deep exchange Isolation Joy Life Live Security Words World
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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Capacity Fear Future Heart Live Love Planning Valid Work
Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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Discover Explore Home Reason Requirement Schedule Stay Surprise Travel

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