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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.

Alan Watts

There is no other reality than present reality.
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Life Present Reality
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
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
My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Death Disappear Particular Pattern Water
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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Anxiety Dead Each Other Equality Laugh Priest Religion Transformation
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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Book Consume Currency Eat Life Money Paper Real Scripture Wealth
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Delay Hurry Present Resistance Try
If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Endless Future Inspirational Life Present
The menu is not the meal.
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Food Meal Menu One Liner Philosophy
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Humanity Humor Knowledge Laugh Oneself
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
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
The source of all light is in the eye.
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Eyes Light One Liner Reality Source Truth
Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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Eternal Future Life Listen Live Music Present Sake
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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