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There is no other reality than present reality.

Alan Watts

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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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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The present is always changing the past.
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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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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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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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There is no other reality than present reality.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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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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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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