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We confuse money with actual wealth.

Alan Watts

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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Faith Float Freedom Grab Relaxation Swim Trust Water Yourself
Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Act Faith One Liner Trust Unknown
There is no other reality than present reality.
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Life Present Reality
I owe my solitude to other people.
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One Liner Owe People Solitude
For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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Life Live Present
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Attraction Content Inferior Material Package Pleasure Symbol
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
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Inspirational Learning Scholar Student Try
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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Action Decision Feeling Follow Happen Voluntary
If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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Belief Cling Faith God Let Go
The present is always changing the past.
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Change Inspirational One Liner Past Present
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Far Telescope Vast
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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Life Misery Spend
Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Deep Defense Doubt Need One Liner
Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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Attitude Aware Environment Immense Learning Mirror Ourselves People Power Social Teaching

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