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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.

Alan Watts

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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Arise Heat Human Love Natural People Sun Time
The present is always changing the past.
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Change Inspirational One Liner Past Present
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 more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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Alone Certain Deep exchange Isolation Joy Life Live Security Words World
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
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.
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Civilization Meditation People Reality Reason Touch
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Inspirational Learning Scholar Student Try
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Life Permanent
The source of all light is in the eye.
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Eyes Light One Liner Reality Source Truth
What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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Discover Finding Imagination Pain Safety Seek
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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Actual Command Feeling Love Pretend
It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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Life Misery Spend
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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