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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Life Permanent
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
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
I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Aware
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
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
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
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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Faith Float Freedom Grab Relaxation Swim Trust Water Yourself
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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Actual Aware Awareness Beginning Future Live Past Present Real World
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Delay Hurry Present Resistance Try
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Music Play Violin
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Inspirational Learning Scholar Student Try
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering
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

My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.

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