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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.

Alan Watts

You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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Final Play Reach Writing
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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Function Ocean Process Universe Yourself
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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Conscious Glory Listen Magnificant Perceive Universe Witness
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
Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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Discover Explore Home Reason Requirement Schedule Stay Surprise Travel
The menu is not the meal.
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Food Meal Menu One Liner Philosophy
If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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Actual Aware Awareness Beginning Future Live Past Present Real World
The present is always changing the past.
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Change Inspirational One Liner Past Present
If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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Nature System Trust Yourself
Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Act Faith One Liner Trust Unknown
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
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
My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Death Disappear Particular Pattern Water
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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Actual Command Feeling Love Pretend
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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One Liner Reality
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

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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