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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

Alan Watts

If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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Black Statement Universe World
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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Advice Existence Expectation Guidance Influence Light Love Principle Room Rule Truth
I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Happen Maternity Sarcastic
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
My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Death Disappear Particular Pattern Water
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
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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Bridge Dangerous Insane Life Time
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
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Delay Hurry Present Resistance Try
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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Ego Finding Sensation Skin
Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Belief Faith Let Go One Liner
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
What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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Discover Finding Imagination Pain Safety Seek
The menu is not the meal.
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Food Meal Menu One Liner Philosophy

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