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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.

Alan Watts

You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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Ocean Stranger Wave World
My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Death Disappear Particular Pattern Water
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Experience Mystery Problem Reality Solution
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
There is no other reality than present reality.
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Life Present Reality
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 source of all light is in the eye.
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Eyes Light One Liner Reality Source Truth
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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Advice Existence Expectation Guidance Influence Light Love Principle Room Rule Truth
The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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Bloom Giant Glory Heart Life Live Morning
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 art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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Civilization Meditation People Reality Reason Touch
Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Act Faith One Liner Trust Unknown
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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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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