Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
ALAN WATTSThe past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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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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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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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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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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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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