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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Delay Hurry Present Resistance 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
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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Ocean Physical Universe Wave
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
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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Function Ocean Process Universe Yourself
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
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
If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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Black Statement Universe World
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
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
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
Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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God Man Personal Religion Result Savior
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering
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
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
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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Impossible Love Realize Relationship Self Love Yourself

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