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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

Alan Watts

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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Science System
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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Function Ocean Process Universe Yourself
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
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
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
Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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Change Deceive Thinking
Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Belief Faith Let Go One Liner
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
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
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Communication Experience Share Words
I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Aware
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Abstraction Future Past Reality
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
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
People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Concern Humble People Spiritual

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