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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.

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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Existence Future Illusion Past Present Reality
Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Deep Defense Doubt Need One Liner
The source of all light is in the eye.
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Eyes Light One Liner Reality Source Truth
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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Eternal Future Life Listen Live Music Present Sake
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
Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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Change Deceive Thinking
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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Attempt Avoid Control Deep Exercise Power
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
Society is our extended mind and body.
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Body Extend Mind One Liner Society
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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Science System
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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Adequate Poetry Talk Words
The menu is not the meal.
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Food Meal Menu One Liner Philosophy
Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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Future Inspirational Night Present Significance
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
The present is always changing the past.
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Change Inspirational One Liner Past Present

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