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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Life Permanent
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
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Attraction Content Inferior Material Package Pleasure Symbol
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
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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Ocean Physical Universe Wave
The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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Frightened Meet Mind Run Seek Terror Want World
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
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Delay Hurry Present Resistance Try
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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Nature System Trust Yourself
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
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
Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Act Faith One Liner Trust Unknown
To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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