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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Alan Watts

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
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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Book Consume Currency Eat Life Money Paper Real Scripture Wealth
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.
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Eternal Future Life Listen Live Music Present Sake
The present is always changing the past.
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Change Inspirational One Liner Past Present
If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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Nature System Trust Yourself
Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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Change Deceive Thinking
People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Illusion Judgment One Liner People Talk
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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Afraid Darkness Finding Love
The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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Frightened Meet Mind Run Seek Terror Want World
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Forget Look Reality Universe World
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Happen Maternity Sarcastic
In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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Connection Life Mouth Move Ocean Reality Separate Source Water
You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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Ocean Stranger Wave World
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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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

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