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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

Alan Watts

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Actual Confusion Money One Liner Wealth
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
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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Ego Finding Sensation Skin
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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Actual Aware Awareness Beginning Future Live Past Present Real World
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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Clash False Purpose Reality Science Truth
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
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
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 religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Abstraction Future Past Reality
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Communication Experience Share Words
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
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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Anxiety Dead Each Other Equality Laugh Priest Religion Transformation
Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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Arrangement Comparison Constellation Look Night Stars Universe
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Capable Enjoyment Individual Satisfaction

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