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

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Delay Hurry Present Resistance Try
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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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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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Far Telescope Vast
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Abstraction Future Past Reality
We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Actual Confusion Money One Liner Wealth
Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Alcohol Conscious Ourselves Philosophy
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
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
In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Capable Enjoyment Individual Satisfaction
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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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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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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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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