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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
Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Act Faith One Liner Trust Unknown
The menu is not the meal.
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Food Meal Menu One Liner Philosophy
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
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
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Capable Enjoyment Individual Satisfaction
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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Civilization Emotion Example Image Language Private Seldom Society Wisdom
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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Future Inspirational Night Present Significance
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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