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

Alan Watts

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
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
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Music Play Violin
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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Capacity Fear Future Heart Live Love Planning Valid Work
Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Alcohol Conscious Ourselves Philosophy
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
Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Deep Defense Doubt Need One Liner
Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Act Faith One Liner Trust Unknown
The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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Alone Certain Deep exchange Isolation Joy Life Live Security Words World
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Death Disappear Particular Pattern Water
Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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Discover Explore Home Reason Requirement Schedule Stay Surprise Travel
Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Duty Genius Guilt Knowledge Love Sense
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Capable Enjoyment Individual Satisfaction
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

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