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

Alan Watts

People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Illusion Judgment One Liner People Talk
Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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Available Description Indeed Language Notice Reality Words
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
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
The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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Civilization Meditation People Reality Reason Touch
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Alcohol Conscious Ourselves Philosophy
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
If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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Existence Future Illusion Past Present Reality
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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Change Dance Inspirational Join Move Reality Sense
What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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Discover Finding Imagination Pain Safety Seek
Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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Gone Imagination Night Sleep Wake Up
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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