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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 are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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Arrangement Comparison Constellation Look Night Stars Universe
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
We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Actual Confusion Money One Liner Wealth
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Persistent Philosophy Problem Question Suspect Wrong
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
Only doubtful truths need defense.
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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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Action Expression Individual Leaving Nature Ocean People Process Unique Universe Waves World
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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Body Extend Mind One Liner Society
You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Forget Look Reality Universe World
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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Action Decision Feeling Follow Happen Voluntary

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