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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.

Alan Watts

I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Aware
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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Achievement Alive Life Panic
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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Complete Life Play Realize Secret Work
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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Alive Arrive Dead Proverb Travel
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
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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Actual Command Feeling Love Pretend
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Life Permanent
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try 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
When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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Afraid Darkness Finding Love
We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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Abandonment Blame Follow Past Present Reverse Situation Thinking
If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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Abyss Chase Death Depend Expectation Future Happiness Ourselves
We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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Action Expression Individual Leaving Nature Ocean People Process Unique Universe Waves World
When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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Arrive Dance Discover Life Meditation Nusic Play
The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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Clash False Purpose Reality Science Truth

Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.

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