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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

Alan Watts

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
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Abstraction Future Past Reality
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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One Liner Reality
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Capable Enjoyment Individual Satisfaction
My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Death Disappear Particular Pattern Water
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
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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Ego Finding Sensation Skin
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
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
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
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering
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
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Forget Look Reality Universe World
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
In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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Connection Life Mouth Move Ocean Reality Separate Source Water

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