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

Alan Watts

The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
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
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
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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Gone Imagination Night Sleep Wake Up
Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Alcohol Conscious Ourselves Philosophy
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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Aline Clear Deep Inspirational Mud Patience Process Water
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Inspirational Learning Scholar Student Try
The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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Existence Future Illusion Past Present Reality
One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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Deal Freedom Guilt Perfection Worry
Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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Arrangement Deal Experience Hospital Interesting Learning Sick
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Music Play Violin
Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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Advice Existence Expectation Guidance Influence Light Love Principle Room Rule Truth
This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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Complete Life Play Realize Secret Work
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Capable Enjoyment Individual Satisfaction

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