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There is no other reality than present reality.

Alan Watts

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
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Belief Faith Let Go One Liner
For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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Frightened Meet Mind Run Seek Terror Want World
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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Change Deceive Thinking
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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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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Aline Clear Deep Inspirational Mud Patience Process Water
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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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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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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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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