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

Alan Watts

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Concern Humble People Spiritual
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
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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Constant Construction Ego Empty Expectation Future Memories Past Reality Regret
Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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
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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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
You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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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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The menu is not the meal.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

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