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

Alan Watts

Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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
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
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Death Disappear Particular Pattern Water
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
Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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Discover Explore Home Reason Requirement Schedule Stay Surprise Travel
There is no other reality than present reality.
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Life Present Reality
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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Attempt Avoid Control Deep Exercise Power
Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Belief Faith Let Go One Liner
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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Faith Float Freedom Grab Relaxation Swim Trust Water Yourself
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 religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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Abandonment Blame Follow Past Present Reverse Situation Thinking
One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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Deal Freedom Guilt Perfection Worry

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