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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.

Alan Watts

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
I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Happen Maternity Sarcastic
Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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Change Deceive Thinking
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
If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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Belief Cling Faith God Let Go
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Forget Look Reality Universe World
The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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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
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
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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Actual Command Feeling Love Pretend
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
Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Concern Humble People Spiritual
The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.

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