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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.

Alan Watts

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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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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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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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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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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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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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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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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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The present is always changing the past.
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