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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.

Alan Watts

If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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Black Statement Universe World
If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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Abyss Chase Death Depend Expectation Future Happiness Ourselves
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Abstraction Future Past Reality
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
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
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
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Alcohol Conscious Ourselves Philosophy
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
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
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
My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Death Disappear Particular Pattern Water
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
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Far Telescope Vast
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
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

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