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

Alan Watts

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
Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Act Faith One Liner Trust Unknown
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Delay Hurry Present Resistance Try
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
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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Connection Life Mouth Move Ocean Reality Separate Source Water
We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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Arise Heat Human Love Natural People Sun Time
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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The present is always changing the past.
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Change Inspirational One Liner Past Present
I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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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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Impossible Love Realize Relationship Self Love 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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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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Adequate Poetry Talk Words
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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One Liner Reality
People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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