Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
ALAN WATTSFor there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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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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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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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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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.
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