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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.

Alan Watts

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 past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Abstraction Future Past Reality
Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Act Faith One Liner Trust Unknown
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 menu is not the meal.
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Food Meal Menu One Liner Philosophy
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Capable Enjoyment Individual Satisfaction
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
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Communication Experience Share Words
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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Change Dance Inspirational Join Move Reality Sense
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Music Play Violin
If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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Actual Aware Awareness Beginning Future Live Past Present Real World
Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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God Man Personal Religion Result Savior
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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Convention Fatal Forget Serious Thinking
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
Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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Attitude Aware Environment Immense Learning Mirror Ourselves People Power Social Teaching
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Far Telescope Vast

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