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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Watts

Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Communication Experience Share Words
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Delay Hurry Present Resistance Try
The menu is not the meal.
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Food Meal Menu One Liner Philosophy
Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Act Faith One Liner Trust Unknown
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
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
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
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
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
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
The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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Civilization Meditation People Reality Reason Touch
I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Happen Maternity Sarcastic
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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Arise Heat Human Love Natural People Sun Time
We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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Action Expression Individual Leaving Nature Ocean People Process Unique Universe Waves World
You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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Ocean Stranger Wave World

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