Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
ALAN WATTSThe past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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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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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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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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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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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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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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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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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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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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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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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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The menu is not the meal.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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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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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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