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

Alan Watts

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 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
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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One Liner Reality
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
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 owe my solitude to other people.
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One Liner Owe People Solitude
The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Experience Mystery Problem Reality Solution
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Delay Hurry Present Resistance Try
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Concern Humble People Spiritual
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
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
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 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
I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Aware

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