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Alan Watts

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
Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Act Faith One Liner Trust Unknown
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Music Play Violin
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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Anxiety Dead Each Other Equality Laugh Priest Religion Transformation
Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Deep Defense Doubt Need One Liner
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
In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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Connection Life Mouth Move Ocean Reality Separate Source Water
We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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Arise Heat Human Love Natural People Sun Time
Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Alcohol Conscious Ourselves Philosophy
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
My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Death Disappear Particular Pattern Water
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Humanity Humor Knowledge Laugh Oneself
I owe my solitude to other people.
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One Liner Owe People Solitude
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay

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