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

Alan Watts

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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Conscious Glory Listen Magnificant Perceive Universe Witness
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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Function Ocean Process Universe Yourself
People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Concern Humble People Spiritual
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
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
Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Duty Genius Guilt Knowledge Love Sense
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
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
My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Death Disappear Particular Pattern Water
Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Deep Defense Doubt Need One Liner
The source of all light is in the eye.
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Eyes Light One Liner Reality Source Truth
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
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Life Permanent
Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Alcohol Conscious Ourselves Philosophy
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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