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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

Alan Watts

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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Civilization Emotion Example Image Language Private Seldom Society Wisdom
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Forget Look Reality Universe World
Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Belief Faith Let Go One Liner
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Abstraction Future Past Reality
There is no other reality than present reality.
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Life Present Reality
The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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Bloom Giant Glory Heart Life Live Morning
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
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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Arrangement Comparison Constellation Look Night Stars Universe
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Persistent Philosophy Problem Question Suspect Wrong
The source of all light is in the eye.
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Eyes Light One Liner Reality Source Truth
We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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Abandonment Blame Follow Past Present Reverse Situation Thinking
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
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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Achievement Alive Life Panic
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
The menu is not the meal.
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Food Meal Menu One Liner Philosophy

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