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The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.

Alan Watts

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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Abandonment Blame Follow Past Present Reverse Situation Thinking
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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One Liner Reality
Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Deep Defense Doubt Need One Liner
If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Endless Future Inspirational Life Present
Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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Discover Explore Home Reason Requirement Schedule Stay Surprise Travel
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
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
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
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
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
I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Aware
The present is always changing the past.
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Change Inspirational One Liner Past Present
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Music Play Violin
The menu is not the meal.
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Food Meal Menu One Liner Philosophy
If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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Belief Cling Faith God Let Go
Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Belief Faith Let Go One Liner

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