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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

Alan Watts

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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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Life Permanent
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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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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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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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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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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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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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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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